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This is a timeline of GiveWell, a United States non-profit charity assessment and effective altruism-focused organization based in San Francisco. Among the many charity evaluators, GiveWell stands out as a rating service that complements classic quantitative measures.^[1] The organization has reviewed over 500 charities.^[2] According to nonprofit 80,000 hours, GiveWell is the world’s leading charity evaluator.^[3]

Sample questions

The following are some interesting questions that can be answered by reading this timeline:

What are some strategies conducted by GiveWell in order to optimize results?
- Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Strategy".
- You will see a miscellaneous list of events including priority relocations, change of direction, plans, and experiments.
What are some significant fundings received by GiveWell?
- Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Funding".
- You will see a number of grants awarded by donors.
What are some significant grantmaking allocations recommended by GiveWell?
- Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Grantmaking".
- You will see a number of discretionary grants allocated by GiveWell and many grants awarded by Good Ventures to charities through GiveWell recommendations.
What are the several charities being top ranked by GiveWell across the years?
- Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Charity ranking".
- You will see standout names like Against Malaria Foundation, GiveDirectly, and Malaria Consortium.
What is the composition of the staff and what are the different roles?
- Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Staff".
Which countries have been visited by members of the GiveWell staff and what was the purpose of the visit?
- Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Site visit".
- You will see a number of countries where evaluated charities conduct work, mostly in Africa.
What are some illustrative versions of GiveWell's Cost-Effectiveness Analyses that have been published across the years?
- Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Cost-effectiveness analysis".
- For the number of versions per year, see the Tables section.
What are events reflecting the impact of GiveWell in the media and among notable people?
- Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "External citation".
- You will see mostly articles citing the charity evaluator.
- Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "External review".
- You will see publications focusing on GiveWell
What are some important interviews conducted to people from GiveWell?
- Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "interview".
- You will see a number of interviews, especially to Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld.
How much money has been moved through GiveWell recommendations across the years?
- See the tables section for details.

Big picture

Period	Development summary	More details
2006–2008	Initial years	GiveWell starts conducting its grant application process. Initial struggles in founding are experienced, with very little money moved through the website. Some controversies emerge in the leadership.
2009–2010	Stabilization	GiveWell achieves growth in money moved. GiveWell staff begin making site visits to the areas served by current and potential top charities.
2011–2012	Partnership	Good Ventures is formed and starts injecting money. Annual cycles are standardized.
2013–2014	Relocation	GiveWell moves to the San Francisco Bay Area, where people have become strong supporters of effective altruism. GiveWell Labs grows in this period.
2015 onward	Reorganization	A spectacular growth in money moved through recommendations is experienced in this period. GiveWell Labs separates from GiveWell, renaming as Open Philanthropy Project.

Highlights by year

Year	Event
2007	GiveWell launches. In the first year, fifty-nine organizations apply for GiveWell grants, with fifteen being considered to produce adequate information about their activities.^[4] Population Services International (PSI) is announced as first recommended charity, and becomes the recipient of GiveWell's first substantial donation.^[5]
2008	GiveWell moves US$35,021 through its website, and receives 130 donations.^[6]
2009	GiveWell decides to rate only charities that meet a minimal standard of transparency.^[7] The evaluator moves US$143,013 through its website (A 308% increase from the previous year). The number of donations reaches 665 (a 412% increase from 2008).^[6]
2010	GiveWell manages to track over US$1.5 million in donations to top charities, compared to just over $1 million in 2009. Its website traffic nearly doubles compared to the previous year, and donations through the website nearly triples.^[8] The evaluator moves US$399,456 through its website (a 179% increase from 2009), whereas the number of donations reaches 976 (a 47% growth from the previous year).^[6]
2011	A strong growth is experienced during the year. GiveWell tracks over US$5 million to top charities, compared to about US$1.5 million in 2010.^[8] Its website reaches US$1,305,089 in movement (a 227% increase from 2010), whereas its number of donations more than triples to 3,099 (a 218% growth from the previous year).^[6] In 2011 GiveWell broadens its search on charitable organizations to include flag promising charities, based on additional characteristics. The set of heuristics for flagging charities worth investigating further is partially developed by incorporating research and previous heuristics from the 2009 report.^[9]
2012	GiveWell starts searching for organizations working on immunization, nutrition and other global health programs.^[9] The evaluator identifies three top priorities for the year: to make significant progress on GiveWell Labs; find more top charities under the same basic framework as our existing recommendations; and expand its team.^[8]
2013	GiveWell develops a cause selection framework, getting basic context for assessing causes within policy-oriented philanthropy and scientific research funding.^[8]
2014	GiveWell tracks 27.8 million dollars moved to its recommended charities, about 60% more than in 2013. The total number of donors giving to GiveWell's recommended charities or to GiveWell unrestricted would not grow significantly (up 9% to about 9,300). Many new donors who gave less than $1,000 in 2013 would not give again in 2014, but among those who gave $10,000 or more in 2013, a higher proportion would give again in 2014.^[8]
2015	GiveWell tracks approximately 100 million dollars in donations going to its recommended charities as a result of its research.^[10]
2015–2016	GiveWell seeks to expand top charity room for more funding and consider alternatives to its top charities by inviting other groups that work on deworming, net distributions, and micronutrient fortification to apply. This would lead to adding Sightsavers' deworming program, the END Fund's deworming program, Project Healthy Children, and Food Fortification Initiative to GiveWell's lists.^[9]
2017	The Open Philanthropy Project becomes an independent entity.
2018	GiveWell tracks US$141 million in money moved in donations to its recommended charities or through its Incubation Grants program.^[11] In the same year, the GiveWell moves US$65 million to its top charities.^[12]
2019	GiveWell processes US$54.1 million in donations.^[13]

Interactions

The dates of first mention may be inaccurate insofar as earlier mentions were missed. Dates are in YYYY-MM-DD format.

Counterpart entity	Founding year of counterpart entity	Entity type	First mention by GiveWell	First mention of GiveWell by that entity (if applicable)	Notes
Population Services International (PSI)	1970	Charity	2007-01-07^[14]		Population Services International (PSI) is one of GiveWell's top recommendations from early 2007 till the end of 2009, when GiveWell would come up with an updated list based on its research.
Charity Navigator (CN)	2001	Charity evaluator	2007-01-09^[15]		GiveWell's first mention of Charity Navigator, and many of its subsequent mentions, are in the context of criticism of too much focus on the "overhead ratio" of charities, a metric that CN focuses on. GiveWell also mentions CN in its business plan as another organization providing a somewhat similar service but one that is different in important ways. GiveWell also responds to personal blog posts by Trent Stamp, the President of Charity Navigator at the time.^[16]
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF; Gates Foundation) (timeline)	2000	Foundation	2007-01-20^[17]	2019-07-01^[18]	GiveWell often mentions the Gates Foundation, generally positively, though at times being critical or puzzled about the Gates Foundation's lack of transparency and unwillingness to make recommendations or accept money from individual donors. GiveWell recommends that Good Ventures co-fund a grant with the Gates Foundation in 2012.^[19]
Network for Good	2001	Donation processor	2007-01-20^[20]		On the GiveWell blog, Karnofsky brings up criticisms of Network for Good's donation-processing fees and argues that PayPal may be better. Katya of Network for Good responds with clarifications, and Karnofsky updates his views somewhat. In 2017, GiveWell says that the blog post no longer represents their views on Network for Good.
Tactical Philanthropy (main blogger: Sean Stannard-Stockton)	2006	Blog/website	2007-02-17	2007-02-16^[21]	Sean Stannard-Stockton writes positively about GiveWell on the Tactical Philanthropy blog; GiveWell links to the post the next day from their roundup. The two blogs link to each other occasionally over the coming years with mutual respect and admiration, even though some of the commentary would be critical.
Copenhagen Consensus	2004	Prioritization project / cause research	2007-11-27^[22]		In 2008 and 2009, while in the early stages of exploring different cause areas within global health and development, GiveWell often cites the Copenhagen Consensus as one of the information sources it consults. GiveWell's references to the Copenhagen Consensus become less frequent starting 2010.
Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP)	1993 (2006 for DCP2)	Prioritization project / cause research	2007-11-27^[22]		GiveWell frequently cites the work of the Disease Control Priorities Project, specifically the Disease Control Priorities Report (DCP2), in its exploration of various cause areas between 2008 and 2011. In 2011, GiveWell discovers an error in the deworming cost-effectiveness estimates in DCP2.^[23]
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) (timeline)	2003	Program evaluator	2008-02-05^[24]		GiveWell cites and references the work of J-PAL, more in its early years (2008 to 2011) though occasionally even after that.
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) (timeline)	2003	Program evaluator	2008-02-05^[24]		GiveWell cites and references the work of IPA, more in its early years (2008 to 2011) though occasionally even after that.
Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy	2001 (?)		2008-02-05 ^[24]		GiveWell cites and references the work of the Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy, mostly in its early years (2008 to 2010). GiveWell even has a guest post from the Assistant Director at the Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy.^[25]
Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD)	1990	Prioritization project / cause research	2008-08-11^[26]		GiveWell cites GBD's 2000 report several times in blog posts in August and September 2008, and occasionally in the coming years.
Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) (timeline)	2004	Charity	2008-09-26^[27]		GiveWell discovers AMF and starts investigating it, adding AMF to its list of recommended charities in July 2009, and cementing its top charity status in December 2009. With the exception of a year-long period where GiveWell marks AMF as not having room for more funding, GiveWell continues to recommend AMF as a top charity.
Center for Global Development (CGD) (timeline)	2001	Research think tank	2009-01-07^[28]		GiveWell cites the work of researchers at CGD in several blog posts over the years starting 2009, including the work of David Roodman. GiveWell spin-off organization Open Philanthropy later hires David Roodman as an advisor. GiveWell also recommends grants to CGD in the 2010s, and GiveWell spin-off Open Philanthropy makes several further grants to CGD.
Carter Center	1982	Charity	2009-02-09^[29]		Elie Hassenfeld of GiveWell starts investigating the Carter Center after finding some of its program activities promising. The investigation ends in 2009 with disappointment, as the Carter Center does not provide GiveWell with a useful budget breakdown between its programs.^[30]
Aid Watch	2009	Blog/website	2009-02-12^[31]	2012-07-18^[32]	In 2009, GiveWell cites and responds to several Aid Watch posts, including Aid Watch's posts arguing for cash transfers and cash as a benchmark.
Center for High Impact Philanthropy	2006		2009-03-04^[33]		GiveWell talks about the Center for High Impact Philanthropy (based at the University of Pennsylvania) in March 2009. The Center for High Impact Philanthropy is mentioned in further blog posts and comments on the GiveWell blog between 2009 and 2011.
Peter Singer	1946	Effective giving advocate	2009-03	2009-03-06^[34]	Peter Singer highlights GiveWell as a resource for donors interested in effective giving in his book The Life You Can Save. The GiveWell blog has a review of the book shortly after its publication. The GiveWell blog continues to reference and engage with Singer in the coming years, particularly in the context of obligations to give and cost-per-life-saved estimates.
Stop TB Partnership	2001	Charity	2009-04-03^[35]		GiveWell prepares a report on Stop TB Partnership, and then adds it to its top charity list. Stop TB Partnership is dropped from the top charity list around 2012.
Good Intentions are not Enough	?	Blog/website	2009-05-21^[36]		GiveWell frequently cites and mentions the work of the Good Intentions are not Enough blog, that tends to highlight cases where aid and charities don't work as well as expected.

Full timeline

Year	Month and date	Event type	Details
1999	November 30	Prelude (website registration)	`givewell.org` is registered (by a different organization).^[37]
2003	July 4	Prelude (website registration)	`givewell.com` is registered (by a different organization).^[38]^[39]
2003		Prelude	Holden Karnofsky graduates from Harvard with a degree in Social Studies. Karnofsky would spend the next several years in the hedge fund industry.^[40]
2004		Prelude	Elie Hassenfeld graduates from Columbia University with a degree in Religion. As well as Karnofsky, Hassenfeld would spend the next several years in the hedge fund industry.^[40]
2006	August	Prelude	Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld, working at a hedge fund in Connecticut, set up an informal “charity club” with colleagues, to help them make informed decisions about their giving. Each person would pick a cause and then research the best charities working on that cause, evaluating them based on data and performance metrics. Hassenfeld and Karnofsky find this work so satisfying that it would ultimately lead them to create GiveWell.^[41]^[42]
2006	November 19	Online community	`givewell.net` is registered.^[43]
2006	November 25	Content creation	Probably the earliest GiveWell wiki edit is made on this date. The wiki would later be shut down.^[44]
2006	December 23	Content creation	The first post on the GiveWell blog is from this date.^[45] The initial tone of the blog would be playful and exploratory, with Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld sharing the intermediate results of their investigations and using emotionally expressive language. Over time, the blog would mirror the organization's own growth in stature and influence and switch to a more formal, measured tone.
2006	December 28	Cause identification (malaria)	In a post on the GiveWell blog, Karnofsky expresses excitement about the seemingly low cost-per-life-saved ($200) of malaria net distribution based on numbers provided by Nothing But Nets for malaria net distribution, as well as a study of the effect of malaria net distribution on malaria-induced mortality. Karnofsky does not yet have enough details to make a concrete recommendation, but seems excited about the possibility, and argues that readers too should be excited at the possibility of saving lives at such a "bargain" price.^[46] GiveWell's interest in malaria nets would eventually lead to it recommending Against Malaria Foundation in 2010, an organization that GiveWell would recommend for the next decade, with brief pauses in due to lack of room for more funding.
2007	January 2		Holden Karnofsky blogs about his 2006 donation decisions, that are split between New Visions for Public Schools ($5000), Interplast ($2000), Children's Aid Society ($1000) and four other smaller causes ($256 each). Karnofsky argues for donating to fewer of the causes that one thinks are best rather than splitting donatons across a wide variety of causes that one does not think are all equally good; this repeats parts of an argument made previously by Steven Landsburg, though Karnosky still ends up splitting between seven charities. Karnofsky says that his decision was "based on about .01% of the information I wish I had".^[47] The only named charity in the list that would make it to the 2007 end-of-year recommendations would be Interplast, and none of these charities would make it to the GiveWell end-of-year recommendations starting 2009.
2007	January 7	Recommendation	In a blog post, Elie Hassenfeld announces GiveWell's first official recommendation: Population Services International (PSI) for their work on oral rehydration therapy (ORT) that helps combat diarrhea, for an estimate of $50 per life saved.^[14] PSI would also be a recommendation at the end of 2007, but would drop out of the recommendations in GiveWell's updated list at the end of 2009 and never return as a top charity.
2007	January, with some followup posts in March	Concept development (overhead ratio fallacy)	In a series of blog posts, Holden Karnofsky critiques the "overhead ratio" (the split of a charity's revenue that it spends on overhead versus direct program expenses) -- a prominent measure used by Charity Navigator to rate charities. Karnofsky says that the measure is useful to identify really wasteful charities, but that it does little to help figure out the effectiveness of a charity's programs and does not help identify the best charities.^[48]^[15]^[49]^[50]^[51]^[52]^[53]^[54]^[55]
2007	February	Update	A blog post by Elie Hassenfeld talks about the reactions of nonprofits working in the clean water space to the questions he posed to them about their work. He classifies the reactions into three categories: hostile, dumbfounded, and grateful. Hassenfeld feels that Population Services International is one of the few organizations that was able to provide an adequate response, but he'd like to do a lot better by the end of 2007.^[42]
2007	February 16	External citation	Writing for Tactical Philanthropy, Sean Stannard-Stockton praises the efforts of the GiveWell blog and project, calling it the "pissed off donor model" and saying: "I don’t agree with everything they write. But it is refreshing to see donors blogging instead of consultants and advisors (like me) telling everyone what donors want." He asks (rhetorically?) why foundations don't share more of their research publicly the way GiveWell has been.^[21]
2007	February 27	Concept development (cause neutrality, transparency)	Holden Karnofsky responds to Blog Carnival's prompt on what donors wish nonprofits knew about them.^[56] His first point: "I see you as competing with other charities." includes an early formulation of the idea of cause neutrality: And if you think your only competitors are the charities “in your space,” think again. I’m not committed to addressing malaria, or diarrhea, or education. I’m just committed to helping the world. Anyone who does that better than you can win my donation away. And they will. Most importantly, they should. Karnofksy's remaining points underline that he, as a donor, actually wants to know how his money will be used, and is looking to have impact and learn the truth rather than looking for "reassurance" or "customer service".
2007	April 7	Publication	GiveWell publishes The Case for the Clear Fund, its so called original business plan, written mostly to solicit the support and feedback of its existing contacts.^[8] Holden Karnofsky announces that he's quitting his hedge fund job on April 27 to devote himself full time to the Clear Fund / GiveWell, and Elie will also be taking a leave of absence from the hedge fund world to help Holden.^[57]
2007	April 28	Team	This is Holden Karnofsky's first day working full-time for GiveWell.^[58]
2007	June 9	Concept development (proven, cost-effective, scalable)	A blog post by Holden Karnofsky, talking about GiveWell starting to contact charities to apply for grants from it, says: "broadly, we want organizations with proven, effective, scalable ways of helping people." These adjectives would form a key part of GiveWell's self-description of the sort of charities and interventions it seeks to recommend.^[59]
2007	late June / early July	Official launch	GiveWell is founded by Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld,^[60]^[61] with the purpose of evaluating, ranking, and recommending charities, focussing on evidence of effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, transparency, self-monitoring and need for funding.^[62]^[63] The organization has a board including Holden, co-founder Bob Elliott, and several others, and a set of focus areas.^[64]
2007	August 3		Elie Hassenfeld joins GiveWell full-time.^[65]
2007	November 11	Online community	GiveWell launches its website at `www.givewell.net` where it summarizes its research and findings to date. Until this time, GiveWell had been communicating its research through its blog and mailing list, but neither of these served the purpose of providing a concise description of what GiveWell currently recommends and why.^[66]
2007	November 20	Concept development (proven, cost-effective, scalable)	A blog post by Holden Karnofsky argues that in relative terms, there is a lot more money for innovative, high-risk projects and not enough money for scaling up existing projects that work. GiveWell is interested in focusing on the latter, and Karnofsky argues that more philanthropic money in general should go towards scaling up proven interventions.^[67]
2007	December 13	External citation	The Chronicle of Philanthropy covers GiveWell.^[68]
2007	December 17	Grantmaking	At a board meeting, the GiveWell staff and board try to figure out the best charities to fund in cause areas that GiveWell had been investigating. They aren't able to cover causes 3 and 4 as GiveWell hasn't done enough research in these yet. For "Employment assistance" the board unanimously chooses with HOPE after some discussion. For Cause 1, "Saving lives in Africa", the debate is between Population Services International (PSI) and Partners in Health (PIH), with heated debate ultimately leading to PSI being selected. For "Global poverty", the board goes with Opportunity International, despite overall reservations regarding the microfinance category. Audio of the board meeting does not survive,^[69] but a blog post goes into detail on the events of the meeting.^[70]
2007	December 19	Concept development (money goes farther in the developing world)	Elie Hassenfeld says that he regrets GiveWell having pledged $25,000 for one charity each in its five cause areas, as, based on the research they've done, they believe that the money donated to charities working to save lives in the developing world delivers much more value per unit money spent than money on the cause areas focused in the New York City area (such as the ones working on helping people find employment). This is an early clear articulation of the idea that donations go much farther when focused on global health and development and targeted at the developing world, an idea that would inform GiveWell's internal prioritization in future years as well as become part of their messaging to donors on their website.^[71]
2007	December 20	External citation	Stephanie Strom at The New York Times publishes article entitled "2 Young Hedge-Fund Veterans Stir Up the World of Philanthropy", featuring GiveWell and its founders.^[72]
2007	December 20	External citation	Rachel Emma Silverman and Sally Beatty at The Wall Street Journal publish article highlighting GiveWell among WSJ resources for donors.^[73]
2007	December 20	Interview	Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld are interviewed by CNBC.^[74]
2007	December 24	Interview	Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld are interviewed by NPR.^[75]
2007	December 27	Concept development (transparency, measurement, humility)	A blog post by Holden Karnofsky titled "Transparency, measurement, humility" identifies humility is an important underpinning value of the GiveWell value, and explains GiveWell's focus on transparency and measurement as both being due to its underlying focus on humility. Notable quote: To us, humility is constantly saying “The things that make sense to me could be wrong – that’s why I’m going to do everything I can to test them, against others’ ideas and against reality.” Instead of being silently dissatisfied with charity, we’re loudly dissatisfied, so that anyone who disagrees can respond. In a later personal blog post in 2017 (after he was no longer working at GiveWell), Karnofsky would describe the evolution in his personal views, some of which is based on his experience of relatively high costs and low benefits of transparency.^[76]
2007	December	Controversy	Holden Karnofsky is discovered posting a question about GiveWell to community weblog MetaFilter using another individual's name, and then posting an answer about the organization with his own name but without disclosing his affiliation with GiveWell. Negative publicity would arise, leading Karnofsky to resign from the role of executive director, though he would later be reinstated.^[77]^[78]^[79]^[80] This would be one among several "astroturfing" incidents in which Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld would participate over the time period; GiveWell would later post what they claim to be a full list of such incidents on their website^[81] as well as a FAQ on GiveWell and astroturfing.^[82]
2008	January 3	Content creation	The article GiveWell is created at Wikipedia. This is a stub and about half the article discusses the controversies around its co-founders' promotional methods.^[83]
2008	January 3, 6, 11	Controversy	The Clear Fund Board Meeting of January 3 is focused on discussion of the astroturfing / inappropriate marketing by GiveWell in December 2007, and leads to Karnofsky resigning from the executive director role and his position on the board.^[84] As followup, the board publishes two statements that are posted to the GiveWell blog on January 6^[80] and January 11^[85] respectively.
2008	March 4	Grantmaking	At a board meeting, the GiveWell staff and board decide what charities to grant to in the two remaining causes that weren't covered in the December 2007 board meeting. The charities are Nurse-Family Partnership for Cause 3 (early childhood care)and KIPP for Cause 4 (K-12 education).^[86]^[87]
2008	June 19	Publication	GiveWell's first-year review is published. The review evaluates GiveWell's performance on four goals: Research (B+), Website (B), Publicity (C, mainly due to the aggressive marketing tactics including Karnofsky's Metafilter promotion), and startup hurdles (B+).^[8]
2008	July 23		GiveWell announces the GiveWell Pledge, where donors make a formal, advance commitment to donate to charities based on what GiveWell finds after a year of research. The purpose is to demonstrate to GiveWell the level of interest donors have in its research.^[88]
2008	August 9	Strategy	At a board meeting, GiveWell board members agree that their top priority for the coming year is money moved, with research as a secondary priority.^[8]
2008	August 27	Concept development (proven, cost-effective, scalable)	A blog post by Holden Karnofsky articulates the idea that GiveWell is looking for proven, scalable, and cost-effective interventions.^[89] These adjectives would become part of GiveWell's description of its work, and as part of its rubric for evaluating its top charities.^[90]
2008	August 29	Concept development (the case against disaster relief)	A blog post by Holden Karnofsky approvingly summarizes the findings of the Disease Control Priorities report on the relatively lower cost-effectiveness of spending on disaster relief compared to spending on disaster-preparedness and on ongoing chronic issues. Several nuances are discussed.^[91] This would become part of GiveWell's standard advice on disaster relief.
2008	September 14 (with alternative dates from alternative sources)	Online community	GiveWell mailing list on Yahoo! Groups launches.^[92] A GiveWell blog post on October 21, 2008, however, dates the starting of the mailing list to July 2008 and its conversion to a public list to around the time of the public post (October 21).^[93]
2008	September 26	Top charities	GiveWell is referred to the Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) on this date. Holden Karnofsky blogs about how he's impressed by AMF's transparency as evidenced on its website.^[27] AMF would go on to become a GiveWell top charity in the coming years and GiveWell would direct tens of millions of dollars in funding toward it.
2008	November 17	Strategy	GiveWell publishes its Change of Direction, based on stuff discussed in the August 2008 board meeting as well as further updates since then. The main updates are in the direction of believing that it's more important to focus on research than on money moved for the near term.^[8]
2008	December 10	Interview	Holden Karnofsky is interviewed by NPR on the importance of researching for donations.^[94]
2008	December	Funding	The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation makes a $100,000 grant to GiveWell.^[95]
2008	?	Recommendation	After conducting an open grant application process and reviewing 59 applications in global health and development, GiveWell announces the first recommendations: Population Services International (PSI), which markets and distributes life-saving materials (mostly condoms and insecticide treated bednets); Partners in Health (PIH), which creates comprehensive health programs (hospital, health center, and community health workers) in disadvantaged, generally rural, areas in the developing world; and Interplast, which devotes to correcting deformities requiring surgery (such as cleft lip and palate deformities), both through direct treatment and through support of local doctors.^[9]^[96] These recommendations would be supplanted by GiveWell's 2009 end-of-year recommendations and none of these charities would return to GiveWell's top charities list after that.^[97]
2009	January	Team	GiveWell Board of Directors' member Ari Herman joins the organization.^[98]
2009	March	External citation	Australian philosopher Peter Singer publishes The Life You Can Save. Singer writes: When I speak about why we ought to be doing more to help the world's poorest people — something I do often — the most frequent question I get is: how can we know that our donation will really help the poor? Until GiveWell came along, it was difficult to give a convincing answer to that question. Previous charity-rating organizations just looked at how much of a charity's income went to program expenses, rather than administration - and it doesn't take much thought to realize that that figure tells you nothing about how effective the charity's programs are. GiveWell has filled a huge gap, and at the same time has started a major trend towards greater transparency and demonstrated cost-effectiveness in the charitable world.^[94] A review of the book by William Easterly uses GiveWell's difficulties getting effectiveness information from charities to push back against Singer's claims of a clear moral obligation similar to that of saving a drowning child.^[99] In a review on the GiveWell blog, Holden Karnofsky agrees with Singer and also partly with Easterly's criticism, concluding: It’s just that “doing more” has to mean more than “giving more.” Picking your charity – and doing your part in holding it accountable – is at least as important as giving generously. We’re trying to make this task easier for time-strapped donors: if you put credence in our analysis, it can mean simply basing your giving on our recommendations (informally, or formally via GiveWell Advance Donation).^[34]
2009	April 3	Top charities	GiveWell completes a preliminary report on the Stop TB Partnership, a charity that it is excited about.^[35] Stop TB Partnership would become a GiveWell top charity at the end of 2009 though it would leave the top charity list after a few years.
2009	July 1	Recommendation	GiveWell publishes its "2008-2009 international aid recommendations"; the top recommendations are Stop TB Partnership and VillageReach, and other recommended charities include Against Malaria Foundation, Population Services International, Partners in Health, and The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.^[100]
2009	July	Team	Natalie Crispin joins GiveWell as a Research Analyst.^[101]
2009	?	Team	GiveWell co-founder and Board Chairman Bob Elliott departs from the organization.^[102]
2009	?	Review	GiveWell conducts reviews of websites from over 300 charitable organizations, aiming to find ones that either implemented priority programs or published, on their websites, meaningful evaluations of their programs.^[9]
2009	?	Grantmaking	GiveWell conducts a grant application process for organizations running economic empowerment programs in the developing world.^[9] The $250,000 grant is offered to organizations providing economic empowerment programs in Sub-Saharan Africa.^[103]
2009	September 1	Grantmaking	GiveWell grants $42,523.55 to VillageReach and $42,523.55 to the Stop Tuberculosis Partnership. This money comes from donors who had donated to GiveWell to grant to its recommended charities at its own discretion.^[104] This would be the first officially announced "discretionary regranting" by GiveWell; discretionary regranting would later morph into the GiveWell Maximum Impact Fund.^[105]
2009	September 8	External citation	New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof co-authors Half the Sky with his wife Sheryl WuDunn. The book points to GiveWell and Charity Navigator as donor resources.^[94]^[106]^[107]
2009	October 3	Concept development (cash as benchmark)	A blog post on the GiveWell blog discusses the idea of cash transfers as a benchmark, i.e., the idea that donations should pass the test of being more cost-effective than donating cash to beneficiaries. The post says: "In concept, we think it’s a great idea (and we proposed something similar for evaluations of U.S. charities). However, one major issue for individual donors is simply that we know of no charity that focuses on delivering cash directly to low-income people."^[108] This is a few years before the launch of future GiveWell top charity GiveDirectly that would be focused precisely on delivering cash directly to low-income people. The concept of cash as a benchmark would inform the thinking of GiveWell and its spinoff Open Philanthropy over the coming years, with the effectiveness of marginal donations to GiveWell top charities being reported in terms of their multiplier over cash.^[109]^[110]
2009	November 8	External citation	GiveWell is recommended by a Wall Street Journal article on resources for evaluating charities, along with Charity Navigator and GuideStar. Whereas Charity Navigator is described as covering 5,400 nonprofits and including "executive compensation, efficiency, organizational capacity, donor privacy policies, and administrative, fund-raising and program expenses", and GuideStar is described as having "nonprofit reports and tax forms for almost two million charities", GiveWell is described as having "in-depth information on individual charities and causes" and focusing on "how well programs work and their impact on the people they serve."^[111]
2009	Late months	Strategy	GiveWell begins to use "scenario analysis" asking how a charity's activities would change at different levels of total unrestricted funding. This approach is expected to allow GiveWell to check back later and see the extent to which actual activities were in line with actual funding.^[112]
2009	December 29, 30, 31	Recommendation	GiveWell recommends VillageReach (immunizations)^[113] and Stop TB Partnership} (tuberculosis)^[114] as its top charities for 2009. The post announcing the recommendations says:^[97] We ask you, as a donor, to turn down some great pitches – “Your interest-free loan will help this person escape poverty forever,” “You can give a cow to a poor family for Christmas,” etc. – and give instead to charities that aren’t terribly good at storytelling. [...] But if you give to one of our top charities, you really can save (or dramatically change) a human life.
2010	January 20	Interview	Elie Hassenfeld is interviewed by CNN about using overhead to evaluate charities.^[115]^[94]
2010	January 25	Interview	Holden Karnofsky is interviewed by CNN in a segment on effective giving.^[94]^[116]
2010	February	Site visit	Holden Karnofsky visits two of GiveWell's recommended charities in site, the Small Enterprise Foundation in South Africa and VillageReach in Mozambique.^[117]
2010	February 19	Publication	GiveWell's 2009 Review and Plan is published.^[8]
2010	May and June	Online community	Over this period, GiveWell acquires the givewell.org domain and migrates its website from `www.givewell.net` to `www.givewell.org`, with the former redirecting to the latter. The Wayback Machine snapshots show the following: April 23 shows www.givewell.org under control of its prior owner,^[118] May 25 shows www.givewell.org under GiveWell's control but with no content on the home page,^[119] and June 14 shows the full home page at www.givewell.org.^[120]
2010	June 3	Guest post	The first guest post on GiveWell by a donor is published.^[121]
2010	August–November	Site visit	GiveWell's staff visits Mumbai, India from mid-August to the end of November, and visits a number of organizations in Mumbai and other cities in the country.^[122]
2010	November 20	External citation	Nicholas Kristof at The New York Times writes: Philanthropy has made huge strides in the last couple of decades, with far more emphasis on cost-effective interventions that are scalable to bring about change. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has helped lead the way, and Web sites like Givewell.org guide small-time donors. CharityNavigator.org ranks organizations partly by administrative expenses, which are less important than a charity’s impact on the needy, but it is trying to develop more useful information about impact.^[94]^[123]
2010	November 30	External citation	GiveWell is featured by USA Today as a donor resource.^[124]^[94]
2010		Charity ranking	GiveWell publishes its top charities. VillageReach (immunizations), Stop TB Partnership (tuberculosis), and Against Malaria Foundation (malaria) are ranked at the top among international charities. Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP), Nurse-Family Partnership, and Invest in Kids are ranked as top United States charities.^[125]
2010	Year round	Money tracking	GiveWell tracks over US$1.5 million in donations to top charities, compared to just over US$1 million in 2009.^[126]
2011	c. January 28	Online community	`givewell.com` starts redirecting to `givewell.org`.^[127]
2011	February	Publication	GiveWell's 2010 Review and Plan is published.^[8]
2011	March 16	External citation	GiveWell is cited by The New York Times in an article about donating in the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan.^[128]^[94]
2011	April	Team	Good Ventures co–founder Cari Tuna (who is in a relationship with, and would later marry, Facebook co–founder Dustin Moskovitz) joins the board of GiveWell. Tuna is president of Good Ventures, a foundation started by her and Moskovitz to give away Moskovitz's acquired wealth through Facebook, and GiveWell recommendations are being used to inform some of the donation decisions.^[129]^[130] This relationship would lead to GiveWell Labs that would morph into the Open Philanthropy Project, later shortened to Open Philanthropy, an independent entity directing the bulk of Good Ventures' money, and a major funder of both GiveWell top charities and several other cause areas.
2011	September 8	Partnership	GiveWell Labs is announced as a new initiative within GiveWell. A collaboration between private foundation Good Ventures and GiveWell, the purpose of it is to “systematically examine a wide variety of causes and opportunities with the intention of identifying the ones which could use additional money ... to produce the best long-run outcomes.”^[131] GiveWell Labs woud morph into the Open Philanthropy Project, later shortened to Open Philanthropy, an independent entity directing the bulk of Good Ventures' money, and a major funder of both GiveWell top charities and several other cause areas.
2011	October	Site visit	GiveWell staff visits five organizations in Malawi and four in India as part of its research process to identify top-rated charities.^[132]^[133]
2011	November	Charity ranking	GiveWell announces its 2011 top charities: Against Malaria Foundation (which focuses on distribution of insecticide-treated nets to prevent malaria) Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (which focuses on deworming) Other GiveWell's standout organizations include: GiveDirectly (Cash grants to poor households in Kenya) Innovations for Poverty Action (Research on how to fight poverty and promote development) KIPP Houston ((United States) Charter schools facing budget cuts) Nyaya Health [now know as Possible] (Health care in rural Nepal) Pratham (Primary education in India) Small Enterprise Foundation (Microloans for women in South Africa)^[134]
2011	November 20	External citation	Gareth Cook at The Boston Globe writes: As we enter into the prime giving season, GiveWell provides a valuable service for the donor who has few preconceptions and just wants to make the world better.^[94]
2011	November 23	External citation	Alexandra Wolfe at Bloomberg Bussinesweek writes: When bonus season came around, instead of deciding whether to buy a new suit, car, or a Caribbean vacation, hedge fund analysts Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld, both then 25, agonized over which charities to donate to. They put so much time and effort into figuring it out that they eventually left their jobs… to start GiveWell, a nonprofit that evaluates charities with hedge-fund–level rigor.^[94]
2011	December 3	External citation	Nicholas Kristof at The New York Times features GiveWell recommending its top charity and citing GiveWell's research.^[135]^[94]
2012	February	Publication	GiveWell's 2011 Review and Plan is published.^[8]
2012	June	Partnership	Private foundation Good Ventures (founded by Cari Tuna and her husband, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz) announces a close partnership with GiveWell.^[136]^[137] The joint collaboration would later lead to the formation of the Open Philanthropy Project, whose mission is to figure out how, exactly to figure out the best possible way to use large sums of money to do as much good as possible.^[138]
2012	September 28	External citation	Paul Sullivan at The New York Times publishes an article on measuring the impact of giving, featuring GiveWell. The article talks about GiveWell's disillusionment with finding cost-effective charities for US equality of opportunity, and their success at finding cost-effective opportunities in global health, specifically the Against Malaria Foundation (AMF). Karnofsky, who is interviewed for the article, notes how the GiveWell review process may have influenced AMF to do post-distribution monitoring to make sure that the bed nets they distributed were being used.^[139]
2012	November 13	External citation	William MacAskill from Giving What We Can publishes post enitled "Researching What We Should", which highlights GiveWell as top evaluator in some areas of research.^[140]
2012	November	Site visit	GiveWell staff travels to Kenya as part of its research process to identify top-rated charities, with the primary purpose of visiting GiveDirectly. The staff also visits two projects run by Evidence Action.^[141]^[133]
2012	November	Charity ranking	GiveWell announces its updated top charities: Against Malaria Foundation^[142] GiveDirectly (which helps families living in extreme poverty by making unconditional cash transfers to them via mobile phone) Schistosomiasis Control Initiative^[143]
2012	December 5	External citation	Tina Rosemberg at The New York Times features GiveWell in an article on giving effectively.^[144]^[94]
2012	December 19	Cost-effectiveness analysis	GiveWell publishes post discussing how they see the relative “bang-for-the-buck” – good accomplished per dollar spent – of three interventions: distribution of insecticide-treated nets to fight malaria, unconditional direct cash transfers, and treating children for parasites (soil-transmitted helminths and schistosomiasis).^[145]
2012	December 24	External review	William MacAskill from Giving What We Can publishes post enitled "Some General Concerns About Givewell" which summarizes a list of concerns and recommendations on a variety of points, including long run effects, external evaluation, and meaning of GiveWell's labels and rating.^[146]
2012	December 27	External citation	Ken Stern at The Washington Post writes: On average, Americans spend more time watching television in one day than they do researching charities in an entire year. Finding good charities takes time. It means using the few organizations, such as GiveWell, that do in-depth studies of charities' effectiveness. And it means remembering that the best organizations, charitable or otherwise, are built on more than a good story or a charismatic leader.^[94]
2013	January	Administration	GiveWell completes moving its offices from New York City to San Francisco.^[147]^[60]^[148]
2013	February	Online community	The GiveWell mailing list on Yahoo! Groups is discontinued. Around this time, the organization begins posting more frequent research updates to its website and blog.^[92]
2013	February, March	Publication	GiveWell's 2012 Review and Plan is published.^[8]
2013	May 31	External citation	Dylan Matthews at The Washington Post publishes an article featuring GiveWell as a resource for donors.^[94]^[149]
2013	June 19	Interview	KQED-FM radio station features GiveWell research analyst Alexander Berger on a segment about how to decide where to donate to charity.^[94]^[150]
2013	June	Funding	Good Ventures awards a grant of $20,000 to GiveWell to support its capacity to research the history of philanthropy and funding opportunities in policy advocacy.^[151]
2013	August 11	External citation	Peter Singer cites GiveWell in a New York Times op-ed for its "serious evaluation of charities helping people in extreme poverty."^[152]^[94]
2013	October	Site visit	GiveWell staff travels to India as part of its research process to identify top-rated charities, with the primary purpose of visiting the Deworm the World Initiative, led by Evidence Action.^[153]^[133]
2013	November 4	External review	Nick Beckstead at 80,000 Hours publishes blog post entitled "Thoughts on my experience working at GiveWell". Beckstead writes: Who would be a good fit to work at GiveWell? Someone who likes research, pays a lot of attention to detail, is obsessed with effective altruism, enjoys (or at least can handle) highly critical feedback, is extremely intelligent and hardworking, is willing to work for very low pay relative to their earning potential, is OK with limited job security, enjoys intellectually challenging work, and likes doing a variety of different things.^[154]
2013	December 12	Publication	GiveWell publishes its first staff member donations post, starting an annual tradition of such publications.^[155]
2013	December 15	External citation	Farhad Manjoo at The Wall Street Journal writes: GiveWell [...] has completely changed the way I think about donating money.^[94]
2013	December	Charity ranking	GiveWell announces its top charities for giving season 2014: GiveDirectly Schistosomiasis Control Initiative Deworm the World Initiative (new addition)^[156]
2014	?	Strategy	GiveWell solicits applications from several organizations running priority programs and evaluates two organizations that have conducted randomized controlled trials of their own programs.^[9]
2014	January	Grantmaking	Non-profit New Incentives receives a US$100,000 grant from San Francisco-based philantropic organization Good Ventures –with input from GiveWell. The grant is the first of a set of grants that aims to increase the number of contenders for GiveWell's top charity status. New Incentives is selected for the grant because it runs a priority program, is committed to transparency, and is at an early stage of development, according to GiveWell.^[157]
2014	February, March	Publication	GiveWell's 2013 Review and Plan is published.^[8]
2014	March	Funding	Good Ventures awards a grant of US$240,000 to GiveWell for general operating support, with the purpose to increase the availability of high-quality information and analysis about charities and giving opportunities.^[158]
2014	April 12	External citation	In a post on LessWrong, Vipul Naik evaluates GiveWell as a startup idea based on criteria provided by Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator, one of the most successful startup accelerators. Naik's post discusses GiveWell's prescience relative to its time, its fit to a niche market, and other precursors to GiveWell.^[159] It also cites a Facebook post by Naik asking for information about precursors to GiveWell; commenters on the post include several people who had been affiliated with Giving What We Can since its founding, including William MacAskill and Bernadette Young, who both say that Giving What We Can was thinking about charity cost-effectiveness and part of the reason they chose to focus on encouraging giving (rather than investigating charity cost-effectiveness) was the entry of GiveWell.^[160]
2014	April 25	External citation	Ron Lieber at The New York Times features GiveWell in an article on the challenges of giving effectively.^[94]^[161]
2014	August	Reorganization	GiveWell Labs, an internal project of GiveWell, morphs into the Open Philanthropy Project, a joint venture of GiveWell and Good Ventures, and gets a separate website.^[162]^[8]
2014	September 7	External citation	Tim Harford on BBC Radio 4 program More or less features GiveWell's research as an alternative to a social media fundraising campaign.^[94]^[163]
2014	September	Grantmaking	Good Ventures makes a US$34,382 grant to IDinsight, as part of GiveWell's project to support the development of top charities.^[164]
2014	September	Study	GiveWell completes a medium-depth writeup on geoengineering research – large-scale interventions in the climate to attempt to reduce climate change or its impacts – focusing on research around efforts to artificially cool the planet. The evaluator finds no funders – governmental or philanthropic – spending large amounts in this area at the moment, and the field appears relatively small with relatively little in funding.^[165]
2014	October	Site visit	GiveWell staff travels to Burkina Faso and Uganda as part of its research process to identify top-rated charities, with the primary purpose of visiting Development Media International and Living Goods.^[166]^[133]
2014	November	Charity ranking	GiveWell announces its top charities for giving season 2014: Against Malaria Foundation^[142] GiveDirectly Schistosomiasis Control Initiative Deworm the World Initiative Other GiveWell's standout charities include Development Media International (DMI), Iodine Global Network (IGN), The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) - Universal Salt Iodization (USI) program, and Living Goods.^[167]
2014	December	Research	GiveWell completes an investigation of one new intervention (salt iodization), and makes substantial progress on several others (maternal and neonatal tetanus immunization campaigns, mass drug administration for lymphatic filariasis, and vitamin A supplementation).^[168]^[169]
2014	Year round	Money tracking	GiveWell tracks US$27.8 million in “money moved” to its recommended charities.^[170]
2015	March	Grantmaking	Good Ventures, with input from GiveWell, awards US$100,000 grant to New Incentives, for general operating support.^[171]
2015	March, April	Publication	GiveWell's 2014 Review and Plan is published.^[8]
2015	May 23	External citation	Neil Webb at The Economist publishes article on impact-driven philanthropy entitled "Doing good by doing well", featuring GiveWell.^[172]
2015	April	Partnership	Open Philanthropy Project announces a partnership with Kaitlyn Trigger and Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram).
2015	June 15	External citation	Derek Thompson at The Atlantic writes: Philosophically, the most difficult task facing GiveWell is putting the vast spectrum of human suffering into numbers. It is, in a way, a math problem, but one laden with value judgments, about which reasonable people can disagree.^[173]
2015	July	Site visit	GiveWell staff travels to Ethiopia to visit the work on universal salt iodization being carried out by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition.^[174]^[133]
2015	September	Grantmaking	With GiveWell reccommendation, Good Ventures grants US$200,000 to the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to support two randomized controlled trials in India and Pakistan that would test whether providing non-cash incentives increases child immunization rates.^[175]
2015	October 23	External citation	Alexandra Zaslow at Today publishes article about Julia Wise and Jeff Kaufman, a couple notable for donating half of income every year to charity. Wise and Kaufman cite GiveWell as their source for picking out charities.^[176]
2015	November 18	Online community	GiveWell Community launches as a Facebook group.^[177]
2015	November	Charity ranking	GiveWell announces its top charities for giving season 2015: Against Malaria Foundation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative Deworm the World Initiative GiveDirectly Development Media International (DMI), The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition’s Universal Salt Iodization program (GAIN – USI), Iodine Global Network (IGN), and Living Goods are recognized as standout charities.^[178]^[179]^[61]
2015	November	Cost-effectiveness analysis	GiveWell publishes its 2015 Cost-Effectiveness Analyses. Final analyses are conducted on long-lasting insecticide-treated nets, deworming, cash transfers, and iodine fortification; and Development Media International.^[180]
2016	March	Grantmaking	Following GiveWell’s general effort to support the creation of future top charities, Good Ventures grants US$812,351 to Evidence Action to support the development of additional programs. These funds are expected to develop and implement a program in Bangladesh.^[181] In the same month, Good Ventures grants US$300,000 to New Incentives to support its conditional cash transfers program.^[182]
2016	April, May	Publication	GiveWell's 2015 Review and Plan is published.^[8]
2016	May	Grantmaking	As part of GiveWell’s effort, Good Ventures grants US$6,400,000 to non-profit Results for Development to support its Market Dynamics practice area’s pneumonia treatment program in Tanzania. The fund is expected to increase use of amoxicillin, the WHO-recommended first-line treatment for childhood pneumonia.^[183] In the same month Good Ventures grants US$350,000 to Innovations for Poverty Action to support a randomized controlled trial.^[184]
2016	June–October	Grantmaking	Following GiveWell’s guidelines, Good Ventures grants $1,985,000 in unrestricted funding over three years to IDinsight, a development-consulting organization that serves mission-driven organizations to facilitate evidence-based decision-making. The fund is expected to allow IDinsight to scale its model of supporting and evaluating development interventions, ideally (in the long term) providing us with research that GiveWell would be able to use in its work to recommend top charities. In October, Good Ventures grants an additional US$314,752 to IDinsight.^[185]
2016	August	Grantmaking	Good Ventures makes a grant of US$25 million to GiveDirectly on GiveWell’s recommendation, with GiveDirectly’s goals for the grant consisting in expanding its ability to raise funds from donors not influenced by GiveWell’s recommendation and collaborating with large aid institutions or governments to address their questions about cash transfers.^[186]
2016	August	Site visit	GiveWell staff travels to the Greater Accra Region, Ghana, with the primary purpose of visiting the Against Malaria Foundation and Sightsavers.^[187]^[133]
2016	September 14	Online community	GiveWell launches new website.^[188]
2016	November	Grantmaking	Good Ventures grants $368587 to New Incentives as part of GiveWell's work to support the creation of new top charities.^[189] In the same month Good Ventures grants $200,000 to Charity Science: Health to support the first year of its work setting up a charity to send SMS immunization reminders in India.^[190]
2016	November	Charity ranking	Givewell announces its top charities for giving season 2016: Against Malaria Foundation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative END Fund for work on deworming (added this year) Malaria Consortium for work on seasonal malaria chemoprevention (added this year) Sightsavers for work on deworming (added this year) Deworm the World Initiative, led by Evidence Action GiveDirectly Other charities worthy of special recognition by GiveWell include Development Media International (DMI), Food Fortification Initiative (FFI), The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition’s Universal Salt Iodization program (GAIN – USI), Iodine Global Network (IGN), Living Goods, and Project Healthy Children.^[191]
2016	November 28	Cost-effectiveness analysis	GiveWell publishes the Final Analysis of its 2016 Cost-Effectiveness Analyses document, which is conducted on long-lasting insecticide-treated nets, deworming, cash transfers, and seasonal malaria chemoprevention.^[180]
2016	Year round	Money tracking	According to a delayed report posted in September 2017, GiveWell manages to track a total of US$91.6 million during 2016 given to its top charities as a direct result of research.^[192] In the same year, Good Ventures made GiveWell Incubation Grants totaling US$13.3 million.^[193]
2017	January	Grantmaking	As part of GiveWell's Incubation Grants to support the development of potential future top charities and improve the quality of our recommendations, Good Ventures grants $900,000 to the Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development, and Evaluation for its Road Safety Campaign.^[194]
2017	January, February	Site visit	GiveWell staff travels to Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo; and Kenya with the purpose of visiting top charity the END Fund and 2017 top charity contender Zusha!, a project of the Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development and Evaluation.^[195]^[133]
2017	February	Site visit	As part of a broader partnership with GiveWell, IDinsight staff travels to Nigeria to visit New Incentives.^[196]^[133]
2017	February–March	Strategy	GiveWell runs a small experiment with a few ads on FiveThirtyEight’s Politics podcast and Vox’s The Weeds. Having spent approximately $20,000 on ads for the initial experiment, Givewell asks donors who give via GiveWell's website to tell the evaluator where they learned about GiveWell when they donate. One of the findings is that donors generally find out about GiveWell during the course of the year, but donate in December. The experiment is later expanded, spending approximately $100,000 on podcast ads.^[197]
2017	March, April	Publication	GiveWell's 2016 Review and Plan is published.^[8]
2017	April	Grantmaking	Regents of the University of California, Berkeley receives a GiveWell Incubation Grant of US$1,104,259 to support the Kenya Life Panel Survey Round 4 (KLPS-4), a follow-up study to assess the long-term impact of deworming on consumption.^[198] In the same month, under the incubation grant program, Good Ventures makes a grant of US$2,642,300 to Evidence Action –which expects to strengthen its financial systems, human resources, and information technology, and another grant of US$820,000 to New Incentives, which plans to use these funds to support its work on conditional cash transfers to incentivize child immunization.^[199]^[200]
2017	April 3	Grantmaking	GiveWell announces plan to allocate US$4.4 million to the Against Malaria Foundation and US$0.5 million of the funding it received for granting to the Deworm the World Initiative. Such allocations have their source in US$4.9 million GiveWell received in funding for making grants at its discretion.^[201]
2017	May	Grantmaking	IDinsight receives an Incubation Grant of US$2,321,617 to support its GiveWell-embedded team for the next twelve months. This grant is in addition to June 2016 and October 2016 GiveWell Incubation Grants to IDinsight, a company that supports and conducts rigorous evaluations of development interventions, often involving randomized controlled trials (RCTs), with an explicit focus on partnering with funders and policy makers to use data to inform key strategy decisions. IDinsight's "decision-focused evaluation" is considered aligned with GiveWell's goals.^[202]
2017	May 20	Cost-effectiveness analysis	GiveWell publishes the first version of its 2017 Cost-Effectiveness Analyses.^[180] The universal basic income (UBI) program is dropped from the GiveDirectly CEA.^[203]
2017	June 1	Reorganization	The Open Philanthropy Project becomes an independent organization.^[204]
2017	June	Grantmaking	The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at the University of California, Berkeley receives a GiveWell Incubation Grant of US$18,000 to investigate the feasibility of conducting a high-quality follow-up study on Stoltzfus et al. 1997, a deworming evaluation conducted in Tanzania in the mid-1990s.^[205]
2017	June	Team	Holden Karnofsky departs from GiveWell and assumes rol of CEO of the Open Philanthropy Project.^[206]
2017	June–July	Site visit	As part of a broader partnership with GiveWell, IDinsight visits to United Purpose (formerly Concern Universal), an implementing partner of Against Malaria Foundation, in Malawi.^[207] In July, IDinsight would observe a 12-month post-distribution check-up of AMF, in Ghana.^[208]^[133]
2017	July	Grantmaking	Charity Science Health receives a GiveWell Incubation Grant of US$357,543 to support its SMS immunization reminder program in India.^[209] In the same month, the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at the University of California, Berkeley receives a GiveWell Incubation Grant of US$492,188, with CEGA planning to use these funds to create a list of previously completed randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that could potentially be candidates for follow-up studies analyzing longer-term effects of programs.^[210]
2017	August 16	Cost-effectiveness analysis	GiveWell publishes the second version of its 2017 Cost-Effectiveness Analyses.^[180] It includes a series of structural changes to the cost-effectiveness models for Malaria Consortium and the Against Malaria Foundation (AMF).^[211]
2017	August	Grantmaking	The Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention receives a GiveWell Incubation Grant of $1,336,409 to start work aimed at reducing deaths from deliberate ingestion of pesticides. The funds are planned to start collecting data on pesticide suicides in Nepal and India with the aim of assisting governments in enacting bans on the most lethal pesticides currently used in suicide attempts.^[212]
2017	August	Grantmaking	GiveWell announces plan to grant roughly $2.25 million in discretionary funding to the Deworm the World Initiative.^[213]
2017	October 27	Cost-effectiveness analysis	GiveWell publishes the third version of its 2017 Cost-Effectiveness Analyses.^[180] This workbook revises the structure of GiveWell's worm intensity data to facilitate engagement.^[214]
2017	November	Charity ranking	Givewell announces its top charities for giving season 2017: Against Malaria Foundation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative Malaria Consortium’s seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) program Evidence Action’s Deworm the World Initiative Helen Keller International (HKI)’s vitamin A supplementation (VAS) program Sightsavers’ deworming program END Fund’s deworming program Evidence Action’s No Lean Season program GiveDirectly Standout charities: Development Media International Evidence Action’s Dispensers for Safe Water program Food Fortification Initiative Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition’s Universal Salt Iodization program Iodine Global Network Living Goods Project Healthy Children^[186]
2017	November	Grantmaking	GiveWell allocates US$0.7 million in discretionary grant to Evidence Action's Deworm the World Initiative. The donations were made between July and September 2017.^[215]
2017	November 8	Cost-effectiveness analysis	GiveWell publishes the fourth version of its 2017 Cost-Effectiveness Analyses,^[180] which makes several miscellaneous updates to the cost-effectiveness model.^[216]
2017	November 27	Cost-effectiveness analysis	GiveWell publishes the fifth version of its 2017 Cost-Effectiveness Analyses.^[180] Among the changes, it presents updated cost figures for most of GiveWell's recommended charities and the implementation of a new process for adjusting cost-effectiveness estimates based on the expected behavior of other funders.^[217]
2017	November 27	External citation	Nurith Aizenman at NPR publishes article entitled "On #GivingTuesday, How To Get The Most Bang For Your Charity Buck", featuring GiveWell.^[94]^[218]
2017	November 28	External citation	Carl Richards at The New York Times publishes guide entitled "How to Make a Personal Plan for Giving" which describes GiveWell as a resource for “The Spreadsheet Method of Giving” (calculating altruistic return on investment).^[94]^[219]
2017	November 28	Advocacy	Elie Hassenfeld shares his advice for giving effectively in a video from NowThis Politics.^[94]
2017	December 4	External citation	Financial blogger Mr. Money Mustache includes GiveWell in his article on tips for giving to charities.^[94]^[220]
2017	Fourth quarter	Funding	GiveWell receives US$5.6 million in funding for making grants at its discretion.^[221]
2017	Year round	Funding	GiveWell receives over US$290,000 in Bitcoin donations.^[222]
2018	January 24	Cost-effectiveness analysis	GiveWell publishes the first version of its 2018 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.^[223]
2018	March	Grantmaking	Evidence Action Beta receives a GiveWell Incubation Grant of US$320,000 to support the Indian government's work on iron and folic acid supplementation.^[224]
2018	March	Grantmaking	GiveWell allocates US$5.6 million in discretionary grant to Schistosomiasis Control Initiative. The donations were made between October and December 2017.^[215]^[225]
2018	May	Grantmaking	GiveWell allocates US$3.0 million in discretionary grant, distributing 70% to Against Malaria Foundation and 30% to Schistosomiasis Control Initiative. The donations were received between January and March 2018.^[215]
2018	June 2	External citation	GiveWell is featured by The Economist in an article about effective altruism.^[94]
2018	June	Grantmaking	Fortify Health receives a GiveWell Incubation Grant of US$295,217 to start a new program aimed at mass fortification of wheat flour with iron in India.^[226]
2018	July 16	Cost-effectiveness analysis	GiveWell publishes new version of its 2018 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, updating the cost per insecticide-treated bed nets (ITN) parameter.^[223]
2018	August 10	Cost-effectiveness analysis	GiveWell publishes new version of its 2018 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, updating the cost per child covered in Helen Keller International's vitamin A supplementation program.^[223]
2018	August	Grantmaking	GiveWell allocates US$4.1 million in discretionary grant, distributing 70% to Against Malaria Foundation and 30% to Schistosomiasis Control Initiative. The donations were received between April and June 2018.^[215]
2018	November	Grantmaking	GiveWell allocates US$1.1 million in discretionary grant to Malaria Consortium's seasonal malaria chemoprevention program. The donations were received between July and September 2018.^[227]^[215]
2018	November 25	Cost-effectiveness analysis	GiveWell publishes updated version of its 2018 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. Updates include accounting for potential long-term benefits of vitamin A supplementation.^[223]
2018	December	Administration	GiveWell updates its donations processing and announces it is accepting donations in Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash,Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Litecoin, and 0x.^[222]
2018	December 1	External citation	Dylan Matthews at Vox writes: It's of course possible to research charity options yourself, but it's probably better to outsource that labor to a careful, methodologically rigorous charity recommender like GiveWell.^[228]
2018	Fourth quarter	Funding	Donors give a combined US$7.6 million in funding to GiveWell for making grants at its discretion.^[229]
2018	Year round	Money tracking	GiveWell tracks US$141 million in money moved to its recommended charities and via its Incubation Grants program. The amount is stated to be influenced by GiveWell recommendations.^[230]
2018	Year round	Grantmaking	GiveWell moves US$65 million to its top charities.^[12]
2019	January 3	Cost-effectiveness analysis	The first version of GiveWell's 2019 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis is published.^[231]
2019	February 4	Team	Rob Reich announces his intention to resign from GiveWell's Board of Directors. In his resignation letter, Reich lists his reasons for departure, one of them being his concerns that the "board’s important governance role is not taken seriously enough by GiveWell leadership".^[232]^[233]
2019	February 13	Grantmaking	GiveWell announces a grantmaking process to look for organizations operating in Southeast Asia and Bangladesh.^[234]
2019	February 26		An article discusses GiveWell's shift towards policy-oriented philanthropy alongside its traditional focus on cost-effective charity interventions. GiveWell, known for evaluating charities based on rigorous evidence, is expanding its research team to explore advocacy for public health regulations, government program improvements, and economic policies. This move aims to identify high-impact strategies beyond direct aid distribution in low- and middle-income countries. The shift acknowledges the potential for policy changes to achieve broader and more sustainable impacts, albeit with greater complexity and subjectivity in assessing effectiveness compared to direct interventions. ^[235]
2019	March 5	Team	Brigid Slipka announces her intention to resign from GiveWell's Board of Directors. In her resignation letter, Slipka gives a pair of recommendations, to create a nominating committee, chaired by a non-board member, and to increase the board to include experts and representatives of beneficiaries.^[236]
2019	March	Strategy	GiveWell announces plan to expand the scope of its research and to roughly double the size of its full-time research staff (from approximately 10 to 20) over the next three years.^[229]
2019	March	Grantmaking	GiveWell allocates US$7.6 million in discretionary grant to Malaria Consortium's seasonal malaria chemoprevention program. The donations were received between October and December 2018.^[215]^[237]
2019	April 1	Team	Rob Reich, Brigid Slipka, and Tom Rutledge resignations become effective. The most common concern reflected in the resignation letters is the argument that the new board would not be well positioned to play a serious role in the organization governance after GiveWell's decision to reduce the size of the board from eight members to five. Hassenfeld replies that the direction GiveWell has chosen is the right one, expressing his belief that it will mean a "more focused, intensely engaged board, and ultimately a more robust, more impactful GiveWell."^[238] After the resignations, GiveWell's Board of Directors retains five members: Timothy Ogden (Interim Chair), Cari Tuna, Holden Karnofsky, Julia Wise, and Elie Hassenfeld.^[232]
2019	May 10	Administration	Catherine Hollander announces GiveWell plan to move offices from San Francisco to Oakland.^[239]
2019	June	Grantmaking	GiveWell allocates U$4.7 million in discretionary grant to the Against Malaria Foundation. The donations were received between January and March 2019.^[215]^[240]
2019	August	Grantmaking	GiveWell allocates US$2.3 million in discretionary grant to the Against Malaria Foundation. The donations were received between April and June 2019.^[215]^[241]
2019	September	Site visit	GiveWell staff visits Burkina Faso to meet with staff of Malaria Consortium’s seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) program, and observe its work.^[242]
2019	November 9	External citation	Allan Saldanha at The Guardian publishes article featuring GiveWell as a leading independent charity evaluator.^[243]
2019	November	Strategy	GiveWell offers matching funds to new donors who hear about its work on podcast advertisements. Offering donation matching is expected enable GiveWell to better track the impact of the ads it funds.^[244]
2019	November	Grantmaking	GiveWell recommends grants of US$57.3 million to its top charities and standout charities, composed of a recommendation to Open Philanthropy to grant US$54.6 million to GiveWell's top charities and standout charities, and US$2.6 million in grants to top charities at GiveWell's discretion.^[180]
2019	November 25	Cost-effectiveness analysis	GiveWell publishes updated workbook containing its cost-effectiveness analysis. This version estimates the cost-effectiveness of funding gaps GiveWell expects its top charities to fill after taking grants it expects Open Philanthropy to make the year into account.^[180]
2019	November 26	Charity ranking	GiveWell publishes its 2019 top charities: Malaria Consortium’s seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) program Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) Helen Keller International (HKI)’s vitamin A supplementation program Charities that treat parasitic worm infections, in particular deworming programs (Evidence Action’s Deworm the World Initiative, Sightsavers’ deworming program, END Fund’s deworming program) GiveDirectly^[245]
2020	March 26	Publication	Catherine Hollander publishes blog post entitled "The impact of COVID-19 on GiveWell’s plans", in order to inform on how the COVID-19 pandemic impacts the organization.^[246]
2020	May 28	Publication	GiveWell publishes their Plan for 2020, highlighting their focus on three projects: expanding into new areas of research; searching for new, cost-effective funding opportunities in GiveWell's traditional research areas; and building a donor community.^[247]
2021	December 2		GiveWell faces backlash after deciding to withhold $110 million of its 2021 funds to use in 2022, aiming to find more cost-effective uses than direct cash transfers. This decision sparks criticism from organizations like GiveDirectly, which argues that the funds could address immediate needs and help alleviate poverty. GiveWell maintains that their approach ensures the greatest impact per dollar, adhering to their principle of cost-effectiveness. The debate highlights broader issues of transparency and the balance between immediate action and strategic future investments in philanthropy.^[248]
2023	October 2		Elie Hassenfeld discusses the organization's approach to identifying high-impact charities on EconTalk with Russ Roberts. Hassenfeld explains that GiveWell, inspired by effective altruism, focuses on finding charities that maximize the impact per dollar donated. He acknowledges the challenges of relying heavily on data and suggests that while GiveWell's method emphasizes cost-effectiveness, there's also value in diversifying philanthropy to include local or personal causes. This balanced approach aims to ensure both optimal impact and personal fulfillment in charitable giving.^[249]

Numerical and visual data

Google Scholar

The following table summarizes per-year mentions on Google Scholar as of December 18, 2021.

Year	"GiveWell"
2007	2
2008	14
2009	18
2010	37
2011	38
2012	60
2013	83
2014	109
2015	121
2016	144
2017	138
2018	112
2019	146
2020	162

Growth of GiveWell full-time staff, June 2010 – August 2016.

Wikipedia views

The image below shows Wikipedia views from December 2007 for desktop, and from July 2015 (see red vertical line) for mobile web, mobile app, desktop spider, and mobile web spider; to March 2020.^[250]

Google Trends

The comparative chart below shows Google Trends data for GiveWell (Non-profit) and GiveWell (Search term) from January 2007 to February 2021, when the screenshot was taken. Interest is also ranked by country and displayed on world map.^[251]

Google Ngram Viewer

The chart below shows Google Ngram Viewer data for GiveWell from 2007 to 2019.^[252]

Tables

The table below shows money moved by category, in US$ millions.^[11]

Year	Incubation grants	Good ventures to recommended charities	All other money moved	Total
2011	3	1.1	0	4.1
2012	6.4	3	0	9.4
2013	8.7	9.3	0.1	18.1
2014	16.7	15.1	0.3	32.1
2015	43.4	70.4	0.5	114.3
2016	41.5	50.4	13.3	105.2
2017	45.7	75.1	15.8	136.6
2018	61	64	15.9	140.9

The table below shows growth of GiveWell staff, June 2010 – August 2016. ‘Num’ is the number of full-time staff, ‘Diff’ is the difference in ‘Num’ relative to the previous month and is given in the form (−x,y), where x is the number full-time staff that left and y is the number of full-time staff that joined.^[253]

Date	Num	Diff
2010-06-09	4
2011-06-04	4	(−1,+1)
2011-09-25	5	(−0,+1)
2012-01-02	4	(−1,+0)
2012-02-08	5	(−0,+1)
2012-07-19	8	(−0,+3)
2013-01-13	6	(−2,+0)
2013-04-30	7	(−0,+1)
2013-08-15	8	(−1,+2)
2013-09-28	10	(−0,+2)
2013-12-14	11	(−0,+1)
2014-07-13	12	(−0,+1)
2014-11-03	18	(−0,+6)
2015-02-01	18	(−1,+1)
2015-05-01	18	(−1,+1)
2015-06-16	23	(−0,+5)
2015-08-16	24	(−0,+1)
2015-10-01	30	(−0,+6)
2015-10-31	32	(−0,+2)
2015-11-22	31	(−1,+0)
2015-12-15	32	(−1,+2)
2016-03-10	31	(−2,+1)
2016-06-25	35	(−2,+6)
2016-07-23	37	(−1,+3)
2016-08-13	36	(−2,+1)

Growth of GiveWell and Open Phil since September 2016

Date	GW ∩ OP	GW ∖ OP	OP ∖ GW
2016-09-10	2	18	20
2016-10-01	2(−0,+0)	19(−0,+1)	20(−0,+0)
2016-11-04	2(-0,+0)	18(−1,+0)	20(−0,+0)
2016-12-05	2(−0,+0)	18(−0,+0)	20(−0,+0)
2017-01-05	2(−0,+0)	17(−1,+0)	20(−0,+0)
2017-02-05	2(−0,+0)	15(−2,+0)	21(−0,+1)
2017-03-08	2(−0,+0)	14(−1,+0)	21(−1,+1)
2017-04-20	2(−0,+0)	16(−0,+2)	21(−0,+0)
2017-05-05	2(−0,+0)	16(−0,+0)	21(−0,+0)
2017-06-05	2(−0,+0)	16(−0,+0)	20(−1,+0)
2017-07-05	1(−1,+0)	16(−0,+0)	23(−0,+3)
2017-08-05	1(−0,+0)	16(−0,+0)	24(−0,+1)
2017-09-06	1(−0,+0)	16(−0,+0)	22(−2,+0)
2017-10-07	1(−0,+0)	16(−0,+0)	22(−0,+0)
2017-11-06	1(−0,+0)	18(−0,+2)	22(−0,+0)
2017-12-05	1(−0,+0)	19(−0,+1)	22(−0,+0)
2018-01-05	1(−0,+0)	19(−0,+0)	22(−0,+0)
2018-02-06	1(−0,+0)	18(−1,+0)	21(−1,+0)
2018-03-06	0(−1,+0)	19(−0,+1)	21(−0,+0)

The table below shows the number of versions per year of GiveWell's Cost-Effectiveness Analyses.

Year	Num
2012	1^[180]
2013	1^[180]
2014	1^[180]
2015	1^[180]
2016	2^[180]
2017	5^[180]
2018	16^[223]
2019	6^[231]

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External links

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[132] "Site Visits: October 2011". givewell.org. Retrieved 10 December 2017.

[Charity_Site_Visits-133] 133.0 ^133.1 ^133.2 ^133.3 ^133.4 ^133.5 ^133.6 ^133.7 ^133.8 "Charity Site Visits". givewell.org. Retrieved 21 December 2017.

[134] "Top Charities - November 2011 Archived Version". givewell.org. Retrieved 3 December 2017.

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[163] "To ice or not to ice?". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 30 March 2020.

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[165] "Geoengineering research". blog.givewell.org. Retrieved 1 March 2018.

[166] "Site Visits: October 2014". givewell.org. Retrieved 21 December 2017.

[167] "Top Charities - November 2014 Archived Version". givewell.org. Retrieved 3 December 2017.

[168] "The GiveWell Blog". blog.givewell.org. Retrieved 29 November 2017.

[169] "Salt Iodization". givewell.org. Retrieved 29 November 2017.

[170] "GiveWell Metrics Report – 2014 Annual Review". drive.google.com. Retrieved 31 March 2020.

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[172] "Doing good by doing well". economist.com. Retrieved 30 March 2020.

[173] "The Greatest Good". theatlantic.com. Retrieved 30 March 2020.

[174] "Site visit: July 2015". givewell.org. Retrieved 21 December 2017.

[175] "J-PAL and IRD — Incentives for Immunization Studies". givewell.org. Retrieved 12 December 2017.

[176] "Couple donates half of income every year to treat world health". today.com. Retrieved 31 March 2020.

[177] "GiveWell Community". facebook.com. Retrieved 23 February 2020.

[178] "Our updated top charities for giving season 2015". blog.givewell.org. Retrieved 3 December 2017.

[179] Simler, Kevin; Hanson, Robin. The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life. p. 207.

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[183] "Results for Development — Childhood Pneumonia Treatment Scale-Up". givewell.org. Retrieved 12 December 2017.

[184] "Innovations for Poverty Action — Mindset Engagement in Cash Transfers". givewell.org. Retrieved 12 December 2017.

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[The_GiveWell_Blog-186] 186.0 ^186.1 "The GiveWell Blog". blog.givewell.org. Retrieved 30 November 2017.

[187] "Site visit: August 2016". givewell.org. Retrieved 21 December 2017.

[188] "vipulnaik working-drafts". github.com. Retrieved 22 December 2017.

[189] "New Incentives — Exit Grant and Immunizations Pilot". givewell.org. Retrieved 10 December 2017.

[190] "Charity Science: Health — General Support". givewell.org. Retrieved 13 December 2017.

[191] "Our updated top charities for giving season 2016". blog.givewell.org. Retrieved 3 December 2017.

[192] "GiveWell's money moved and web traffic in 2016". blog.givewell.org. Retrieved 12 April 2018.

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[194] "Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development, and Evaluation — Zusha! Road Safety Campaign". givewell.org. Retrieved 13 December 2017.

[195] "Site visit: January and February 2017". givewell.org. Retrieved 28 November 2017.

[196] "Site visit: February 2017". givewell.org. Retrieved 21 December 2017.

[197] "Update on our work on outreach". blog.givewell.org. Retrieved 1 March 2018.

[198] "UC Berkeley — KLPS-4 Survey". www.givewell.org. Retrieved 29 November 2017.

[199] "Evidence Action — Strengthen Operations". givewell.org. Retrieved 13 December 2017.

[200] "New Incentives — General Support". givewell.org. Retrieved 13 December 2017.

[201] Crispin, Natalie. "Allocation of discretionary funds and new recommendation for donors". blog.givewell.org. Retrieved 21 December 2017.

[202] "IDinsight — Embedded GiveWell Team (2017)". givewell.org. Retrieved 29 November 2017.

[203] "2017 GiveWell cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) — Version 1" (PDF). files.givewell.org. Retrieved 27 March 2020.

[Who_We_Are_openphilanthropy.org-204] "Who We Are". openphilanthropy.org. Retrieved 18 December 2017.

[205] "Center for Effective Global Action at UC Berkeley — Deworming Study Planning Gift". givewell.org. Retrieved 29 November 2017.

[206] "Holden Karnofsky". linkedin.com. Retrieved 18 February 2020.

[207] "Trip Report: PDCU Site Visit, Malawi" (PDF). files.givewell.org. Retrieved 21 December 2017.

[208] "Trip Report: PDCU Site Visit, Ghana" (PDF). files.givewell.org. Retrieved 21 December 2017.

[209] "Charity Science Health — SMS Reminders for Immunization". givewell.org. Retrieved 29 November 2017.

[210] "Center for Effective Global Action at UC Berkeley — Scoping RCTs for Long-Term Follow-Ups". www.givewell.org. Retrieved 29 November 2017.

[211] "2017 GiveWell cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) — Version 2" (PDF). files.givewell.org. Retrieved 27 March 2020.

[212] "Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention – General Support". givewell.org. Retrieved 13 December 2017.

[213] "The GiveWell Blog Month, August 2017". blog.givewell.org. Retrieved 24 December 2017.

[214] "2017 GiveWell cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) — Version 3" (PDF). files.givewell.org. Retrieved 27 March 2020.

[Discretionary_Grantmakingv-215] 215.0 ^215.1 ^215.2 ^215.3 ^215.4 ^215.5 ^215.6 ^215.7 "Discretionary Grantmaking". givewell.org. Retrieved 4 December 2019.

[216] "2017 GiveWell cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) — Version 4" (PDF). files.givewell.org. Retrieved 27 March 2020.

[217] "2017 GiveWell cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) — Version 5" (PDF). files.givewell.org. Retrieved 27 March 2020.

[218] "On #GivingTuesday, How To Get The Most Bang For Your Charity Buck". npr.org. Retrieved 30 March 2020.

[219] "How to Make a Personal Plan for Giving". nytimes.com. Retrieved 30 March 2020.

[220] "How to Give Money (and Get Happiness) More Easily". web.archive.org. Retrieved 30 March 2020.

[221] "Allocation of discretionary funds from Q4 2017". blog.givewell.org. Retrieved 4 December 2019.

[We.E2.80.99ve_added_more_options-222] 222.0 ^222.1 "We've added more options for cryptocurrency donors". blog.givewell.org. Retrieved 3 December 2019.

[2018_Cost-Effectiveness_Analysis_Changelog-223] 223.0 ^223.1 ^223.2 ^223.3 ^223.4 "2018 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Changelog". givewell.org. Retrieved 28 March 2020.

[224] "Evidence Action Beta — Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation". givewell.org. Retrieved 3 December 2019.

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[March_2019-229] 229.0 ^229.1 "The GiveWell Blog Month: March 2019". blog.givewell.org. Retrieved 4 December 2019.

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 This is a '''timeline of [[wikipedia:GiveWell|GiveWell]]''', a United States [[w:non-profit organization|non-profit]] {{w|charity assessment}} and {{w|effective altruism}}-focused organization based in {{w|San Francisco}}. Among the many charity evaluators, GiveWell stands out as a rating service that complements classic quantitative measures.<ref>{{cite book|title=New Themes in Institutional Analysis: Topics and Issues from European Research|page=325|edition=Georg Krücken, Carmelo Mazza, Renate E. Meyer, Peter Walgenbach|url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=33kvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA325&dq=%22givewell%22+%22in+2014%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwihlNWejIXYAhUDCpAKHWjOA2gQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=%22givewell%22%20%22in%202014%22&f=false|accessdate=12 December 2017}}</ref> The organization has reviewed over 500 charities.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bregman|first1=Rutger|title=Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World|url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=psA_DgAAQBAJ&pg=PT184&dq=%22in+2009%22+%22givewell%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQgNHv15LYAhVHIpAKHb-vA4k4ChDoAQgmMAA#v=onepage&q=%22in%202009%22%20%22givewell%22&f=false|accessdate=18 December 2017}}</ref> According to nonprofit {{w|80,000 hours}}, GiveWell is the world’s leading charity evaluator.<ref name="The effective altruism guide to donating this giving season">{{cite web|title=The effective altruism guide to donating this giving season|url=https://80000hours.org/2016/12/the-effective-altruism-guide-to-donating-this-giving-season/|website=80000hours.org|accessdate=18 December 2017}}</ref>
 ==Sample questions==
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 |}
-== Numerical and visual data  ==
-=== Google Scholar ===
+==Interactions==
-The following table summarizes per-year mentions on Google Scholar as of December 18, 2021.
+The dates of first mention may be inaccurate insofar as earlier mentions were missed. Dates are in YYYY-MM-DD format.
 {| class="sortable wikitable"
-! Year
+! Counterpart entity !! Founding year of counterpart entity !! Entity type !! First mention by GiveWell !! First mention of GiveWell by that entity (if applicable) !! Notes
-! "GiveWell"
 |-
-| 2007 || 2
+| {{w|Population Services International}} (PSI) || 1970 || Charity || 2007-01-07<ref name=psi-first-rec/> || || Population Services International (PSI) is one of GiveWell's top recommendations from early 2007 till the end of 2009, when GiveWell would come up with an updated list based on its research.
-|-
-| 2008 || 14
-|-
-| 2009 || 18
-|-
-| 2010 || 37
 |-
-| 2011 || 38
+| {{w|Charity Navigator}} (CN) || 2001 || Charity evaluator || 2007-01-09<ref name=before-tearing-straw-man-apart/> || || GiveWell's first mention of Charity Navigator, and many of its subsequent mentions, are in the context of criticism of too much focus on the "overhead ratio" of charities, a metric that CN focuses on. GiveWell also mentions CN in its business plan as another organization providing a somewhat similar service but one that is different in important ways. GiveWell also responds to personal blog posts by Trent Stamp, the President of Charity Navigator at the time.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2007/05/02/can-charity-be-cool/|title = Can charity be cool?|date = May 2, 2007|accessdate = September 4, 2022|publisher = GiveWell|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden}}</ref>
 |-
-| 2012 || 60
+| {{w|Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation}} (BMGF; Gates Foundation) ([[Timeline of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation|timeline]]) || 2000 || Foundation || 2007-01-20<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2007/01/20/21/|title = I’m basically fine with investing in evil|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = January 20, 2007|accessdate = September 4, 2022}}</ref> || 2019-07-01<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/articles/lost-progress-in-vitamin-a-distribution|title = The danger of complacency: Lost progress in vitamin A distribution|publisher = Gates Foundation|last = Baker|first = Shawn}}</ref> || GiveWell often mentions the Gates Foundation, generally positively, though at times being critical or puzzled about the Gates Foundation's lack of transparency and unwillingness to make recommendations or accept money from individual donors. GiveWell recommends that Good Ventures co-fund a grant with the Gates Foundation in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.givewell.org/PSI-Myanmar-Artemisinin-Resistance-Containment|title = Containment of Artemisinin Resistance in Eastern Myanmar (PSI Myanmar project)|accessdate = September 4, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref>
 |-
-| 2013 || 83
+| {{w|Network for Good}} || 2001 || Donation processor || 2007-01-20<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2007/02/10/network-for-what-now/|title = Network for what now?|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = February 10, 2007|accessdate = September 4, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref> || || On the GiveWell blog, Karnofsky brings up criticisms of Network for Good's donation-processing fees and argues that PayPal may be better. Katya of Network for Good responds with clarifications, and Karnofsky updates his views somewhat. In 2017, GiveWell says that the blog post no longer represents their views on Network for Good.
 |-
-| 2014 || 109
+| Tactical Philanthropy (main blogger: Sean Stannard-Stockton) || 2006 || Blog/website || 2007-02-17 || 2007-02-16<ref name=givewell-vs-ford-foundation/> || Sean Stannard-Stockton writes positively about GiveWell on the Tactical Philanthropy blog; GiveWell links to the post the next day from their roundup. The two blogs link to each other occasionally over the coming years with mutual respect and admiration, even though some of the commentary would be critical.
 |-
-| 2015 || 121
+| {{w|Copenhagen Consensus}} || 2004 || Prioritization project / cause research || 2007-11-27<ref name=cheap-ways-to-save-lives>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2007/11/27/cheap-ways-to-save-lives/|title = Cheap ways to save lives|date = November 27, 2007|accessdate = September 4, 2022|publisher = GiveWell|last = Hassenfeld|first = Elie}}</ref> || || In 2008 and 2009, while in the early stages of exploring different cause areas within global health and development, GiveWell often cites the Copenhagen Consensus as one of the information sources it consults. GiveWell's references to the Copenhagen Consensus become less frequent starting 2010.
 |-
-| 2016 || 144
+| {{w|Disease Control Priorities Project}} (DCPP) || 1993 (2006 for DCP2) || Prioritization project / cause research || 2007-11-27<ref name=cheap-ways-to-save-lives/> || || GiveWell frequently cites the work of the Disease Control Priorities Project, specifically the Disease Control Priorities Report (DCP2), in its exploration of various cause areas between 2008 and 2011. In 2011, GiveWell discovers an error in the deworming cost-effectiveness estimates in DCP2.<ref name=dcp2-cost-effectiveness-errors>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2011/09/29/errors-in-dcp2-cost-effectiveness-estimate-for-deworming/|title = Errors in DCP2 cost-effectiveness estimate for deworming|date = September 29, 2011|accessdate = September 4, 2022|last = Berger|first = Alexander|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref>
 |-
-| 2017 || 138
+| {{w|Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab}} (J-PAL) ([[Timeline of Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab|timeline]]) || 2003 || Program evaluator || 2008-02-05<ref name=rigorous-research-on-aid>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2008/02/05/rigorous-research-on-aid/|title = Rigorous research on aid|date = February 5, 2008|accessdate = September 4, 2022|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref> || || GiveWell cites and references the work of J-PAL, more in its early years (2008 to 2011) though occasionally even after that.
 |-
-| 2018 || 112
+| {{w|Innovations for Poverty Action}} (IPA) ([[Timeline of Innovations for Poverty Action|timeline]]) || 2003 || Program evaluator || 2008-02-05<ref name=rigorous-research-on-aid/> || || GiveWell cites and references the work of IPA, more in its early years (2008 to 2011) though occasionally even after that.
 |-
-| 2019 || 146
+| {{w|Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy}} || 2001 (?) ||  || 2008-02-05 <ref name=rigorous-research-on-aid/> || || GiveWell cites and references the work of the Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy, mostly in its early years (2008 to 2010). GiveWell even has a guest post from the Assistant Director at the Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2008/12/18/guest-post-proven-programs-are-the-exception-not-the-rule/|title = Guest post: Proven programs are the exception, not the rule|last = Anderson|first = David|date = December 18, 2008|accessdate = September 4, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref>
 |-
-| 2020 || 162
+| {{w|Global Burden of Disease Study}} (GBD) || 1990 || Prioritization project / cause research || 2008-08-11<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2008/08/11/disability-adjusted-life-years-ii-variations/|title = Disability-Adjusted Life Years II: Variations|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = August 11, 2008|accessdate = September 4, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref> || || GiveWell cites GBD's 2000 report several times in blog posts in August and September 2008, and occasionally in the coming years.
 |-
-|}
+| {{w|Against Malaria Foundation}} (AMF) ([[Timeline of Against Malaria Foundation|timeline]]) || 2004 || Charity || 2008-09-26<ref name=givewell-finds-amf/> || || GiveWell discovers AMF and starts investigating it, adding AMF to its list of recommended charities in July 2009, and cementing its top charity status in December 2009. With the exception of a year-long period where GiveWell marks AMF as not having room for more funding, GiveWell continues to recommend AMF as a top charity.
-[[File:Givewell gscho.png|thumb|center|700px]]
-[[File:Growth of GiveWell full-time staff.jpg|thumb|center|600px|Growth of GiveWell full-time staff, June 2010 – August 2016.]]
-=== Wikipedia views ===
-The image below shows Wikipedia views from December 2007 for desktop, and from July 2015 (see red vertical line) for mobile web, mobile app, desktop spider, and mobile web spider; to March 2020.<ref>{{cite web |title=GiveWell Wikipedia views |url=https://wikipediaviews.org/displayviewsformultiplemonths.php?page=GiveWell&allmonths=allmonths&language=en&drilldown=all |website=wikipediaviews.org |accessdate=24 April 2020}}</ref>
-[[File:GiveWell Wikipedia Views from December 2007.png|500px|thumb|center]]
-=== Google Trends ===
-The comparative chart below shows {{w|Google Trends}} data for GiveWell (Non-profit) and GiveWell (Search term) from January 2007 to February 2021, when the screenshot was taken. Interest is also ranked by country and displayed on world map.<ref>{{cite web |title=GiveWell |url=https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2007-01-01%202021-02-23&q=%2Fm%2F03h570b,GiveWell |website=Google Trends |access-date=23 February 2021}}</ref>
-[[File:GiveWell gt.jpg|thumb|center|800px]]
-=== Google Ngram Viewer ===
-The chart below shows {{w|Google Ngram Viewer}} data for GiveWell from 2007 to 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=GiveWell |url=https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=GiveWell&year_start=2007&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=true |website=books.google.com |access-date=23 February 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
-[[File:GiveWell ngram.jpg|thumb|center|800px]]
-== Tables ==
-The table below shows money moved by category, in US$ millions.<ref name="GiveWell Metrics Report – 2018 Annual Review"/>
-{| class="sortable wikitable"
-! Year !! Incubation grants !! Good ventures to recommended charities !! All other money moved !! Total
 |-
-| 2011 || 3 || 1.1 || 0 || 4.1
+| {{w|Center for Global Development}} (CGD) ([[Timeline of Center for Global Development|timeline]]) || 2001 || Research think tank || 2009-01-07<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2009/01/07/beware-just-published-studies/|title = Beware just-published studies|date = January 7, 2009|accessdate = September 4, 2022|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|publisher=  GiveWell}}</ref> || || GiveWell cites the work of researchers at CGD in several blog posts over the years starting 2009, including the work of David Roodman. GiveWell spin-off organization Open Philanthropy later hires David Roodman as an advisor. GiveWell also recommends grants to CGD in the 2010s, and GiveWell spin-off Open Philanthropy makes several further grants to CGD.
 |-
-| 2012 || 6.4 || 3 || 0 || 9.4
+| {{w|Carter Center}} || 1982 || Charity || 2009-02-09<ref name=givewell-finds-carter-center>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2009/02/09/the-carter-center/|title = The Carter Center|date = February 9, 2009|accessdate = September 4, 2022|last = Hassenfeld|first = Elie|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref> || || Elie Hassenfeld of GiveWell starts investigating the Carter Center after finding some of its program activities promising. The investigation ends in 2009 with disappointment, as the Carter Center does not provide GiveWell with a useful budget breakdown between its programs.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2009/11/11/the-carter-center-2/|title = The Carter Center|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = November 11, 2009|accessdate = September 4, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref>
 |-
-| 2013 || 8.7 || 9.3 || 0.1 || 18.1
+| Aid Watch || 2009 || Blog/website || 2009-02-12<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2009/02/12/malaria-success-story-questioned/|title = Malaria “success story” questioned|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = February 12, 2009|accessdate = September 4, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref> || 2012-07-18<ref>{{cite web|url = https://wp.nyu.edu/dri/publications/media/givewell-and-easterly-talk-meta-research/|title = GiveWell and Easterly Talk Meta-Research|date = July 18, 2012|accessdate = September 4, 2022|publisher = Aid Watch}}</ref> || In 2009, GiveWell cites and responds to several Aid Watch posts, including Aid Watch's posts arguing for cash transfers and cash as a benchmark.
-|-
-| 2014 || 16.7 || 15.1 || 0.3 || 32.1
 |-
-| 2015 || 43.4 || 70.4 || 0.5 || 114.3
+| Center for High Impact Philanthropy || 2006 || || 2009-03-04<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2009/03/04/the-center-for-high-impact-philanthropy/|title = The Center for High Impact Philanthropy|last = Hassenfeld|first = Elie|date = March 4, 2009|accessdate = September 4, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref> || || GiveWell talks about the Center for High Impact Philanthropy (based at the University of Pennsylvania) in March 2009. The Center for High Impact Philanthropy is mentioned in further blog posts and comments on the GiveWell blog between 2009 and 2011.
 |-
-| 2016 || 41.5 || 50.4 || 13.3 || 105.2
+| Peter Singer || 1946 || Effective giving advocate || 2009-03 || 2009-03-06<ref name=givewell-tlycs-review/> || Peter Singer highlights GiveWell as a resource for donors interested in effective giving in his book ''The Life You Can Save''. The GiveWell blog has a review of the book shortly after its publication. The GiveWell blog continues to reference and engage with Singer in the coming years, particularly in the context of obligations to give and cost-per-life-saved estimates.
-|-
-| 2017 || 45.7 || 75.1 || 15.8 || 136.6
 |-
-| 2018 || 61 || 64 || 15.9 || 140.9
+| {{w|Stop TB Partnership}} || 2001 || Charity || 2009-04-03<ref name=givewell-finds-stop-tb/> || || GiveWell prepares a report on Stop TB Partnership, and then adds it to its top charity list. Stop TB Partnership is dropped from the top charity list around 2012.
 |-
+| Good Intentions are not Enough || ? || Blog/website || 2009-05-21<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2009/05/21/pitfalls-of-the-overhead-ratio/|title = Pitfalls of the overhead ratio?|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = May 21, 2009|accessdate = September 4, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref> || || GiveWell frequently cites and mentions the work of the Good Intentions are not Enough blog, that tends to highlight cases where aid and charities don't work as well as expected.
 |}
+==Full timeline==
-The table below shows growth of GiveWell staff, June 2010 – August 2016. ‘Num’ is the number of full-time staff, ‘Diff’ is the difference in ‘Num’ relative to the previous month and is given in the form
-(''−x,y''), where ''x'' is the number full-time staff that left and ''y'' is the number of full-time staff that joined.<ref name="=GIVEWELL STAFF GROWTH">{{cite web|title=GIVEWELL STAFF GROWTH|url=https://issarice.com/givewell-staff-growth|website=issarice.com|accessdate=29 December 2017}}</ref>
 {| class="sortable wikitable"
-! Date !! Num !! Diff
+! Year !! Month and date !! Event type !! Details
 |-
-| 2010-06-09 || 4 ||
+| 1999 || November 30 || Prelude (website registration) || <code>givewell.org</code> is registered (by a different organization).<ref>{{cite web |title=givewell.org |url=https://who.is/whois/givewell.org |website=who.is |accessdate=25 February 2020}}</ref>
 |-
-| 2011-06-04 || 4 || (−1,+1)
+| 2003 || July 4 || Prelude (website registration) || <code>givewell.com</code> is registered (by a different organization).<ref>{{cite web |title=givewell.com |url=https://who.is/whois/givewell.com |website=who.is |accessdate=25 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Give Well |url=http://www.givewell.com.au/about/ |website=givewell.com.au |accessdate=24 April 2020}}</ref>
 |-
-| 2011-09-25 ||	5 || (−0,+1)
+| 2003 || || Prelude || {{w|Holden Karnofsky}} graduates from {{w|Harvard}} with a degree in {{w|Social Studies}}. Karnofsky would spend the next several years in the {{w|hedge fund}} industry.<ref name="GiveWell, or Give 'em Hell?">{{cite web|title=GiveWell, or Give 'em Hell?|url=https://metatalk.metafilter.com/15547/GiveWell-or-Give-em-Hell|website=metatalk.metafilter.com|accessdate=21 December 2017}}</ref>
 |-
-| 2012-01-02 ||	4 || (−1,+0)
+| 2004 || || Prelude || {{w|Elie Hassenfeld}} graduates from {{w|Columbia University}} with a degree in {{w|Religion}}. As well as Karnofsky, Hassenfeld would spend the next several years in the hedge fund industry.<ref name="GiveWell, or Give 'em Hell?"/>
-|-
-| 2012-02-08 ||	5 || (−0,+1)
-|-
-| 2012-07-19 ||	8 || (−0,+3)
 |-
-| 2013-01-13 ||	6 || (−2,+0)
+| 2006 || August || Prelude || {{w|Holden Karnofsky}} and Elie Hassenfeld, working at a {{w|hedge fund}} in {{w|Connecticut}}, set up an informal “charity club” with colleagues, to help them make informed decisions about their giving. Each person would pick a cause and then research the best charities working on that cause, evaluating them based on data and {{w|performance metric}}s. Hassenfeld and Karnofsky find this work so satisfying that it would ultimately lead them to create GiveWell.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Pitney|first1=Nico|title=That Time A Hedge Funder Quit His Job And Then Raised $60 Million For Charity|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/26/elie-hassenfeld-givewell_n_6927320.html|website=huffingtonpost.com|accessdate=17 December 2017}}</ref><ref name=elie-where-im-coming-from>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2007/02/20/38/|title = Where I’m coming from|last = Hassenfeld|first = Elie|date = February 20, 2007|accessdate = August 28, 2022}}</ref>
 |-
-| 2013-04-30 ||	7 || (−0,+1)
+| 2006 || November 19 || Online community || <code>givewell.net</code> is registered.<ref>{{cite web |title=givewell.net |url=https://who.is/whois/givewell.net |website=who.is |accessdate=25 February 2020}}</ref>
 |-
-| 2013-08-15 ||	8 || (−1,+2)
+| 2006 || November 25 || Content creation || Probably the earliest GiveWell {{w|wiki}} edit is made on this date. The wiki would later be shut down.<ref>{{cite web |title=Givewell wiki |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810061246/http://www.givewell.net/wiki/index.php?title=Contact_Us&action=history |website=archive.org |accessdate=24 February 2020}}</ref>
-|-
-| 2013-09-28 ||	10 || (−0,+2)
-|-
-| 2013-12-14 ||	11 || (−0,+1)
-|-
-| 2014-07-13 ||	12 || (−0,+1)
-|-
-| 2014-11-03 ||	18 || (−0,+6)
-|-
-| 2015-02-01 ||	18 || (−1,+1)
-|-
-| 2015-05-01 ||	18 || (−1,+1)
-|-
-| 2015-06-16 ||	23 || (−0,+5)
-|-
-| 2015-08-16 ||	24 || (−0,+1)
-|-
-| 2015-10-01 ||	30 || (−0,+6)
-|-
-| 2015-10-31 ||	32 || (−0,+2)
 |-
-| 2015-11-22 ||	31 || (−1,+0)
+| 2006 || December 23 || Content creation || The first post on the GiveWell blog is from this date.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2006/12/23/nice-to-meet-you/|title = Nice to meet you|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = December 23, 2006|accessdate = August 28, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref> The initial tone of the blog would be playful and exploratory, with Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld sharing the intermediate results of their investigations and using emotionally expressive language. Over time, the blog would mirror the organization's own growth in stature and influence and switch to a more formal, measured tone.
 |-
-| 2015-12-15 ||	32 || (−1,+2)
+| 2006 || December 28 || Cause identification (malaria) || In a post on the GiveWell blog, Karnofsky expresses excitement about the seemingly low cost-per-life-saved ($200) of malaria net distribution based on numbers provided by {{w|Nothing But Nets}} for malaria net distribution, as well as a study of the effect of malaria net distribution on malaria-induced mortality. Karnofsky does not yet have enough details to make a concrete recommendation, but seems excited about the possibility, and argues that readers too should be excited at the possibility of saving lives at such a "bargain" price.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2006/12/28/dont-let-elie-rip-you-off/|title = Don’t let Elie rip you off!|date = December 28, 2006|accessdate = August 28, 2022|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref> GiveWell's interest in malaria nets would eventually lead to it recommending {{w|Against Malaria Foundation}} in 2010, an organization that GiveWell would recommend for the next decade, with brief pauses in due to lack of room for more funding.
 |-
-| 2016-03-10 ||	31 || (−2,+1)
+| 2007 || January 2 || || Holden Karnofsky blogs about his 2006 donation decisions, that are split between New Visions for Public Schools ($5000), Interplast ($2000), Children's Aid Society ($1000) and four other smaller causes ($256 each). Karnofsky argues for donating to fewer of the causes that one thinks are best rather than splitting donatons across a wide variety of causes that one does not think are all equally good; this repeats parts of an argument made previously by Steven Landsburg, though Karnosky still ends up splitting between seven charities. Karnofsky says that his decision was "based on about .01% of the information I wish I had".<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2007/01/02/the-2006-holden-awards/|title = The 2006 Holden Awards|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = January 2, 2007|accessdate = August 28, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref> The only named charity in the list that would make it to the 2007 end-of-year recommendations would be Interplast, and none of these charities would make it to the GiveWell end-of-year recommendations starting 2009.
 |-
-| 2016-06-25 ||	35 || (−2,+6)
+| 2007 || January 7 || Recommendation || In a blog post, Elie Hassenfeld announces GiveWell's first official recommendation: {{w|Population Services International}} (PSI) for their work on oral rehydration therapy (ORT) that helps combat diarrhea, for an estimate of $50 per life saved.<ref name=psi-first-rec>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2007/01/07/recommending-population-services-international/|title = Recommending Population Services International|date = January 7, 2007|accessdate = August 28, 2022|last = Hassenfeld|first = Elie|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref> PSI would also be a recommendation at the end of 2007, but would drop out of the recommendations in GiveWell's updated list at the end of 2009 and never return as a top charity.
 |-
-| 2016-07-23 ||	37 || (−1,+3)
+| 2007 || January, with some followup posts in March || Concept development (overhead ratio fallacy) || In a series of blog posts, Holden Karnofsky critiques the "overhead ratio" (the split of a charity's revenue that it spends on overhead versus direct program expenses) -- a prominent measure used by {{w|Charity Navigator}} to rate charities. Karnofsky says that the measure is useful to identify really wasteful charities, but that it does little to help figure out the effectiveness of a charity's programs and does not help identify the best charities.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2007/01/09/i-found-a-number-that-tells-you-everything-you-need-to-know/|title = I found a number that tells you everything you need to know|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = January 9, 2007|accessdate = August 28, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref><ref name=before-tearing-straw-man-apart>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2007/01/09/before-i-tear-the-straw-man-apart/|title = Before I tear the Straw Man apart …|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = January 9, 2007|accessdate = August 28, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2007/01/13/ok-straw-man-the-gloves-are-off/|title = OK, Straw Man, the gloves are off|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = January 13, 2007|accessdate = August 28, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2007/01/16/which-of-these-boasts-is-not-like-the-others/|title = Which of these boasts is not like the others?|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = January 16, 2007|accessdate = August 28, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2007/01/30/straw-man-or-75-of-the-population/|title = Straw man? Or 75% of the population?|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = January 30, 2007|accessdate = August 28, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2007/03/17/low-pay-driving-out-the-best-how-did-this-happen/|title = Low pay driving out the best?? How did this happen?|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = March 17, 2007|accessdate = August 28, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2007/03/20/tears-of-straw/|title = Tears of straw|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = March 20, 2007|accessdate = August 28, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2007/03/24/even-google-has-been-suckered/|title = Even Google has been suckered|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = March 24, 2007|accessdate = August 28, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2007/03/25/the-straw-ratio-closing-thoughts-for-now/|title = The Straw Ratio: Closing thoughts (for now)|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = March 25, 2007|accessdate = August 28, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref>
 |-
-| 2016-08-13 ||	36 || (−2,+1)
+| 2007 || February || Update || A blog post by Elie Hassenfeld talks about the reactions of nonprofits working in the clean water space to the questions he posed to them about their work. He classifies the reactions into three categories: hostile, dumbfounded, and grateful. Hassenfeld feels that Population Services International is one of the few organizations that was able to provide an adequate response, but he'd like to do a lot better by the end of 2007.<ref name=elie-where-im-coming-from/>
 |-
-|}
+| 2007 || February 16 || External citation || Writing for Tactical Philanthropy, Sean Stannard-Stockton praises the efforts of the GiveWell blog and project, calling it the "pissed off donor model" and saying: "I don’t agree with everything they write. But it is refreshing to see donors blogging instead of consultants and advisors (like me) telling everyone what donors want." He asks (rhetorically?) why foundations don't share more of their research publicly the way GiveWell has been.<ref name=givewell-vs-ford-foundation>{{cite web|url = https://www.tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/02/givewell-vs-the-ford-foundation/|title = GiveWell vs. The Ford Foundation|date = February 16, 2007|accessdate = August 28, 2022|last = Stannard-Stockton|first = Sean|publisher = Tactical Philanthropy}}</ref>
-Growth of GiveWell and Open Phil since September 2016
-{| class="sortable wikitable"
-! Date !! GW ∩ OP !! GW ∖ OP !! OP ∖ GW
 |-
-| 2016-09-10 ||	2 || 18 || 20
+| 2007 || February 27 || Concept development (cause neutrality, transparency) || Holden Karnofsky responds to Blog Carnival's prompt on what donors wish nonprofits knew about them.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2007/02/27/every-time-i-tried-to-tell-you-the-words-just-came-out-wrog/|title = Every time I tried to tell you, the words just came out wrong …|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = February 27, 2007|accessdate = August 30, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref> His first point: "I see you as competing with other charities." includes an early formulation of the idea of cause neutrality: {{quote|And if you think your only competitors are the charities “in your space,” think again. I’m not committed to addressing malaria, or diarrhea, or education. I’m just committed to helping the world. Anyone who does that better than you can win my donation away. And they will. Most importantly, they should.}}Karnofksy's remaining points underline that he, as a donor, actually wants to know how his money will be used, and is looking to have impact and learn the truth rather than looking for "reassurance" or "customer service".
 |-
-| 2016-10-01 ||	2(−0,+0) || 19(−0,+1) || 20(−0,+0)
+| 2007 || April 7 || Publication || GiveWell publishes ''The Case for the Clear Fund'', its so called original business plan, written mostly to solicit the support and feedback of its existing contacts.<ref name="Our Progress to Date"/> Holden Karnofsky announces that he's quitting his hedge fund job on April 27 to devote himself full time to the Clear Fund / GiveWell, and Elie will also be taking a leave of absence from the hedge fund world to help Holden.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2007/04/07/announcing-the-clear-fund/|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|title = Announcing the Clear Fund|date = April 7, 2007|accessdate = August 28, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref>
 |-
-| 2016-11-04 ||	2(-0,+0) || 18(−1,+0) || 20(−0,+0)
+| 2007 || April 28 || Team || This is Holden Karnofsky's first day working full-time for GiveWell.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2007/04/28/whats-in-it-for-me/|title = What’s in it for me|last = Karnofksy|first = Holden|date = April 28, 2007|accessdate = September 4, 2022}}</ref>
 |-
-| 2016-12-05 ||	2(−0,+0) || 18(−0,+0) || 20(−0,+0)
+| 2007 || June 9 || Concept development (proven, cost-effective, scalable) || A blog post by Holden Karnofsky, talking about GiveWell starting to contact charities to apply for grants from it, says: "broadly, we want organizations with ''proven, effective, scalable'' ways of helping people." These adjectives would form a key part of GiveWell's self-description of the sort of charities and interventions it seeks to recommend.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2007/06/09/where-should-we-donate/|title = Where should we donate?|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = June 9, 2007|accessdate = September 4, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref>
 |-
-| 2017-01-05 ||	2(−0,+0) || 17(−1,+0) || 20(−0,+0)
+| 2007 || late June / early July || Official launch || GiveWell is founded by {{w|Holden Karnofsky}} and Elie Hassenfeld,<ref name="That Time A Hedge Funder Quit His Job And Then Raised $60 Million For Charity">{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/26/elie-hassenfeld-givewell_n_6927320.html|title = That Time A Hedge Funder Quit His Job And Then Raised $60 Million For Charity|last = Pitney|first = Nico|date = March 26, 2015|accessdate = 24 October 2017|publisher = ''{{w|Huffington Post}}''}}</ref><ref name="The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life">{{cite book|last1=Simler|first1=Kevin|last2=Hanson|first2=Robin|title=The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life|url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=p_lADwAAQBAJ&pg=PA207&dq=%22givewell%22+%22in+2007%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj42YXNz5HYAhWHF5AKHYiGDrAQ6AEINzAD#v=onepage&q=%22givewell%22%20%22in%202007%22&f=false|accessdate=17 December 2017}}</ref> with the purpose of evaluating, ranking, and recommending charities, focussing on evidence of effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, transparency, self-monitoring and need for funding.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Epstein|first1=Marc J.|last2=Yuthas|first2=Kristi|title=Measuring and Improving Social Impacts: A Guide for Nonprofits, Companies and Impact Investors|url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=eKk0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT93&dq=%22givewell%22+%22in+2007%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj42YXNz5HYAhWHF5AKHYiGDrAQ6AEIRDAF#v=onepage&q=%22givewell%22%20%22in%202007%22&f=false|accessdate=17 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Callahan|first1=David|title=The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age|url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=cw6wDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA122&dq=%22givewell%22+%22in+2007%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj42YXNz5HYAhWHF5AKHYiGDrAQ6AEISzAG#v=onepage&q=%22givewell%22%20%22in%202007%22&f=false|accessdate=17 December 2017}}</ref> The organization has a board including Holden, co-founder Bob Elliott, and several others, and a set of focus areas.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2007/07/05/go-time/|title = Go time|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = July 5, 2007|accessdate = August 28, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref>
 |-
-| 2017-02-05 ||	2(−0,+0) || 15(−2,+0) || 21(−0,+1)
+| 2007 || August 3 || || Elie Hassenfeld joins GiveWell full-time.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2007/08/03/why-im-here/|title = Why I’m here|last = Hassenfeld|first = Elie|date = August 3, 2007|accessdate = September 3, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref>
 |-
-| 2017-03-08 ||	2(−0,+0) || 14(−1,+0) || 21(−1,+1)
+| 2007 || November 11 || Online community || GiveWell launches its website at <code>www.givewell.net</code> where it summarizes its research and findings to date. Until this time, GiveWell had been communicating its research through its blog and mailing list, but neither of these served the purpose of providing a concise description of what GiveWell currently recommends and why.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2007/11/11/where-should-you-give/|title = Where should you give?|date = November 11, 2007|accessdate = September 4, 2022|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref>
 |-
-| 2017-04-20 ||	2(−0,+0) || 16(−0,+2) || 21(−0,+0)
+| 2007 || November 20 || Concept development (proven, cost-effective, scalable) || A blog post by Holden Karnofsky argues that in relative terms, there is a lot more money for innovative, high-risk projects and not enough money for scaling up existing projects that work. GiveWell is interested in focusing on the latter, and Karnofsky argues that more philanthropic money in general should go towards scaling up proven interventions.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2007/11/20/heres-to-fear-of-failure/|title = Here’s to fear of failure|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = November 20, 2007|accessdate = August 29, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref>
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-| 2017-05-05 ||	2(−0,+0) || 16(−0,+0) || 21(−0,+0)
+| 2007 || December 13 || External citation || The ''{{w|Chronicle of Philanthropy}}'' covers GiveWell.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.philanthropy.com/article/a-quest-for-the-best/|title = A Quest for the Best|last = Perry|first = Suzanne|date = December 13, 2007|accessdate = August 28, 2022|publisher = Chronicle of Philanthropy}}</ref>
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-| 2017-06-05 ||	2(−0,+0) || 16(−0,+0) || 20(−1,+0)
+| 2007 || December 17 || Grantmaking || At a board meeting, the GiveWell staff and board try to figure out the best charities to fund in cause areas that GiveWell had been investigating. They aren't able to cover causes 3 and 4 as GiveWell hasn't done enough research in these yet. For "Employment assistance" the board unanimously chooses with HOPE after some discussion. For Cause 1, "Saving lives in Africa", the debate is between Population Services International (PSI) and Partners in Health (PIH), with heated debate ultimately leading to PSI being selected. For "Global poverty", the board goes with Opportunity International, despite overall reservations regarding the microfinance category. Audio of the board meeting does not survive,<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.givewell.org/about/official-records/board-meeting-2|title = Clear Fund Board Meeting - 12/17/2007|date = December 17, 2007|accessdate = September 4, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref> but a blog post goes into detail on the events of the meeting.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2007/12/25/tough-calls/|title = Tough calls|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = December 25, 2007|accessdate = September 4, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref>
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-| 2017-07-05 ||	1(−1,+0) || 16(−0,+0) || 23(−0,+3)
+| 2007 || December 19 || Concept development (money goes farther in the developing world) || Elie Hassenfeld says that he regrets GiveWell having pledged $25,000 for one charity each in its five cause areas, as, based on the research they've done, they believe that the money donated to charities working to save lives in the developing world delivers much more value per unit money spent than money on the cause areas focused in the New York City area (such as the ones working on helping people find employment). This is an early clear articulation of the idea that donations go much farther when focused on global health and development and targeted at the developing world, an idea that would inform GiveWell's internal prioritization in future years as well as become part of their messaging to donors on their website.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2007/12/19/all-causes-are-not-created-equal/|title = When apples are better than oranges|last = Hassenfeld|first = Elie|date = December 19, 2007|accessdate = August 28, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref>
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-| 2017-08-05 ||	1(−0,+0) || 16(−0,+0) || 24(−0,+1)
+| 2007 || December 20 || External citation || Stephanie Strom at {{w|The New York Times}} publishes article entitled "2 Young Hedge-Fund Veterans Stir Up the World of Philanthropy", featuring GiveWell and its founders.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Strom |first1=Stephanie |title=2 Young Hedge-Fund Veterans Stir Up the World of Philanthropy |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/us/20charity.html |website=nytimes.com |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref>
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-| 2017-09-06 ||	1(−0,+0) || 16(−0,+0) || 22(−2,+0)
+| 2007 || December 20 || External citation || Rachel Emma Silverman and Sally Beatty at {{w|The Wall Street Journal}} publish article highlighting GiveWell among WSJ resources for donors.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Silverman |first1=Rachel Emma |last2=Beatty |first2=Sally |title=Doing Due Diligence On Your Donations |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119810791163740721 |website=wsj.com |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref>
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-| 2017-10-07 ||	1(−0,+0) || 16(−0,+0) || 22(−0,+0)
+| 2007 || December 20 || Interview || Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld are interviewed by {{w|CNBC}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Shaking Up Philanthropy |url=https://www.cnbc.com/video/2007/12/20/shaking-up-philanthropy.html |website=cnbc.com |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref>
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-| 2017-11-06 ||	1(−0,+0) || 18(−0,+2) || 22(−0,+0)
+| 2007 || December 24 || Interview || Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld are interviewed by {{w|NPR}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Young Duo to 'Clear' the Way for Charitable Giving |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17571316 |website=npr.org |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref>
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-| 2017-12-05 ||	1(−0,+0) || 19(−0,+1) || 22(−0,+0)
+| 2007 || December 27 || Concept development (transparency, measurement, humility) || A blog post by Holden Karnofsky titled "Transparency, measurement, humility" identifies humility is an important underpinning value of the GiveWell value, and explains GiveWell's focus on transparency and measurement as both being due to its underlying focus on humility. Notable quote:{{quote|To us, humility is constantly saying “The things that make sense to me could be wrong – that’s why I’m going to do everything I can to test them, against others’ ideas and against reality.” Instead of being silently dissatisfied with charity, we’re loudly dissatisfied, so that anyone who disagrees can respond.}}In a later personal blog post in 2017 (after he was no longer working at GiveWell), Karnofsky would describe the evolution in his personal views, some of which is based on his experience of relatively high costs and low benefits of transparency.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/gTaDDJFDzqe7jnTWG/some-thoughts-on-public-discourse|title = Some Thoughts on Public Discourse|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = February 23, 2017|accessdate = September 4, 2022|publisher = Effective Altruism Forum}}</ref>
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-| 2018-01-05 || 1(−0,+0) || 19(−0,+0) || 22(−0,+0)
+| 2007 || December || Controversy || {{w|Holden Karnofsky}} is discovered posting a question about GiveWell to [[w:Online community|community]] {{w|weblog}} {{w|MetaFilter}} using another individual's name, and then posting an answer about the organization with his own name but without disclosing his affiliation with GiveWell. Negative publicity would arise, leading Karnofsky to resign from the role of executive director, though he would later be reinstated.<ref>{{cite web|title=GiveWell, or Give 'em Hell?|url=https://metatalk.metafilter.com/15547/GiveWell-or-Give-em-Hell|website=metatalk.metafilter.com|accessdate=8 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Strom|first1=Stephanie|title=Founder of a Nonprofit Is Punished by Its Board for Engaging in an Internet Ruse|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/us/08givewell.html|website=nytimes.com|accessdate=24 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2007/12/31/i-had-a-lapse-in-judgment-did-a-horrible-thing-and-i-apologize/|title = I had a lapse in judgment, did a horrible thing, and I apologize|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = December 31, 2007|accessdate = August 28, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref><ref name=board-astroturfing-statement-1/> This would be one among several "astroturfing" incidents in which Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld would participate over the time period; GiveWell would later post what they claim to be a full list of such incidents on their website<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.givewell.org/about/official-records/board-meeting-3/FAQ-on-inappropriate-marketing/full-account|title = Full account of GiveWell staff's inappropriate online promotion in December 2007|publisher = GiveWell|accessdate = August 28, 2022}}</ref> as well as a FAQ on GiveWell and astroturfing.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.givewell.org/about/official-records/board-meeting-3/FAQ-on-inappropriate-marketing|title = FAQ on GiveWell and Astroturfing|publisher = GiveWell|accessdate = August 28, 2022}}</ref>
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-| 2018-02-06 || 1(−0,+0) || 18(−1,+0) || 21(−1,+0)
+| 2008 || January 3 || Content creation || The article {{w|GiveWell}} is created at {{w|Wikipedia}}. This is a stub and about half the article discusses the controversies around its co-founders' promotional methods.<ref>{{cite web |title=GiveWell: Revision history |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GiveWell&oldid=181970363|title = GiveWell|date = January 3, 2008|accessdate = September 4, 2022|publisher = Wikipedia}}</ref>
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-| 2018-03-06 || 0(−1,+0) || 19(−0,+1) || 21(−0,+0)
+| 2008 || January 3, 6, 11 || Controversy || The Clear Fund Board Meeting of January 3 is focused on discussion of the astroturfing / inappropriate marketing by GiveWell in December 2007, and leads to Karnofsky resigning from the executive director role and his position on the board.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.givewell.org/about/official-records/board-meeting-3|title = Clear Fund Board Meeting - 01/03/2008|date = January 3, 2008|accessdate = August 28, 2022}}</ref> As followup, the board publishes two statements that are posted to the GiveWell blog on January 6<ref name=board-astroturfing-statement-1>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2008/01/06/statement-from-the-givewell-board-of-directors/|title = Statement from the GiveWell Board of Directors|date = January 6, 2008|accessdate = August 28, 2022|last = Elliot|first = Bob|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref> and January 11<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2008/01/11/updated-statement-from-the-givewell-board-of-directors/|title = Updated: Statement from the GiveWell Board of Directors|last = Elliot|first = Bob|date = January 11, 2008|accessdate = August 28, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref> respectively.
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+| 2008 || March 4 || Grantmaking || At a board meeting, the GiveWell staff and board decide what charities to grant to in the two remaining causes that weren't covered in the December 2007 board meeting. The charities are {{w|Nurse-Family Partnership}} for Cause 3 (early childhood care)and {{w|KIPP}} for Cause 4 (K-12 education).<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.givewell.org/about/official-records/board-meeting-4|title = Clear Fund Board Meeting - 03/04/2008|date = March 4, 2008|accessdate = September 4, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2008/03/07/quick-update-2/|title = Quick update|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = March 7, 2008|accessdate = September 4, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref>
-The table below shows the number of versions per year of GiveWell's Cost-Effectiveness Analyses.
-{| class="sortable wikitable"
-! Year !! Num
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-| 2012 || 1<ref name="givewell.orgen"/>
+| 2008 || June 19 || Publication || GiveWell's first-year review is published. The review evaluates GiveWell's performance on four goals: Research (B+), Website (B), Publicity (C, mainly due to the aggressive marketing tactics including Karnofsky's Metafilter promotion), and startup hurdles (B+).<ref name="Our Progress to Date"/>
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-| 2013 || 1<ref name="givewell.orgen"/>
+| 2008 || July 23 || || GiveWell announces the GiveWell Pledge, where donors make a formal, advance commitment to donate to charities based on what GiveWell finds after a year of research. The purpose is to demonstrate to GiveWell the level of interest donors have in its research.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2008/07/23/the-givewell-pledge/|title = The GiveWell Pledge|date = July 23, 2008|accessdate = September 4, 2022|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref>
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-| 2014 || 1<ref name="givewell.orgen"/>
+| 2008 || August 9 || Strategy || At a board meeting, GiveWell board members agree that their top priority for the coming year is money moved, with research as a secondary priority.<ref name="Our Progress to Date"/>
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-| 2015 || 1<ref name="givewell.orgen"/>
+| 2008 || August 27 || Concept development (proven, cost-effective, scalable) || A blog post by Holden Karnofsky articulates the idea that GiveWell is looking for proven, scalable, and cost-effective interventions.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2008/08/27/selecting-program-based-health-interventions/|title = Selecting program-based health interventions|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = August 27, 2008|accessdate = August 29, 2022}}</ref> These adjectives would become part of GiveWell's description of its work, and as part of its rubric for evaluating its top charities.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/research-faq|title = Frequently Asked Questions About Our Charity Research and Recommendations|accessdate = August 29, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref>
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-| 2016 || 2<ref name="givewell.orgen"/>
+| 2008 || August 29 || Concept development (the case against disaster relief) || A blog post by Holden Karnofsky approvingly summarizes the findings of the [[w:Disease Control Priorities Project|Disease Control Priorities report]] on the relatively lower cost-effectiveness of spending on disaster relief compared to spending on disaster-preparedness and on ongoing chronic issues. Several nuances are discussed.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2008/08/29/the-case-against-disaster-relief/|title = The case against disaster relief|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = August 29, 2008|accessdate = September 4, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref> This would become part of GiveWell's standard advice on disaster relief.
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-| 2017 || 5<ref name="givewell.orgen"/>
+| 2008 || September 14 (with alternative dates from alternative sources) || {{w|Online community}} || GiveWell mailing list on {{w|Yahoo! Groups}} launches.<ref name="yahoo">{{cite web |title=Group Description |url=https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/givewell/conversations/topics/287|website=groups.yahoo.com|archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20200209234240/https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/givewell/conversations/topics/287|archivedate = 9 February 2020}}</ref> A GiveWell blog post on October 21, 2008, however, dates the starting of the mailing list to July 2008 and its conversion to a public list to around the time of the public post (October 21).<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2008/10/21/research-mailing-list/|title = Research mailing list|date = October 21, 2008|accessdate = August 30, 2022|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref>
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-| 2018 || 16<ref name="2018 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Changelog"/>
+| 2008 || September 26 || Top charities || GiveWell is referred to the {{w|Against Malaria Foundation}} (AMF) on this date. Holden Karnofsky blogs about how he's impressed by AMF's transparency as evidenced on its website.<ref name=givewell-finds-amf>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2008/09/26/transparency-done-right/|title = Transparency done right|last = Karnofsky|first = Holdne|date = September 26, 2008|accessdate = August 30, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref> AMF would go on to become a GiveWell top charity in the coming years and GiveWell would direct tens of millions of dollars in funding toward it.
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-| 2019 || 6<ref name="sdsf">{{cite web |title=2019 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Changelog |url=https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/our-criteria/cost-effectiveness/cost-effectiveness-models/changelog-2019 |website=givewell.org |accessdate=28 March 2020}}</ref>
+| 2008 || November 17 || Strategy || GiveWell publishes its Change of Direction, based on stuff discussed in the August 2008 board meeting as well as further updates since then. The main updates are in the direction of believing that it's more important to focus on research than on money moved for the near term.<ref name="Our Progress to Date">{{cite web|title=Our Progress to Date|url=https://www.givewell.org/about/progress|website=givewell.org|accessdate=29 November 2017}}</ref>
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+| 2008 || December 10 || Interview || {{w|Holden Karnofsky}} is interviewed by {{w|NPR}} on the importance of researching for donations.<ref name="What Others Are Saying"/>
-==Full timeline==
-{| class="sortable wikitable"
-! Year !! Month and date !! Event type !! Details
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-| 1999 || November 30 || Prelude (website registration) || <code>givewell.org</code> is registered (by a different organization).<ref>{{cite web |title=givewell.org |url=https://who.is/whois/givewell.org |website=who.is |accessdate=25 February 2020}}</ref>
+| 2008 || December || Funding || The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation makes a $100,000 grant to GiveWell.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2009/01/15/quick-notes-on-our-progress/|title = Quick notes on our progress|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = January 15, 2009|accessdate = August 30, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref>
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-| 2003 || July 4 || Prelude (website registration) || <code>givewell.com</code> is registered (by a different organization).<ref>{{cite web |title=givewell.com |url=https://who.is/whois/givewell.com |website=who.is |accessdate=25 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Give Well |url=http://www.givewell.com.au/about/ |website=givewell.com.au |accessdate=24 April 2020}}</ref>
+| 2008 || ? || Recommendation || After conducting an open grant application process and reviewing 59 applications in global health and development, GiveWell announces the first recommendations: {{w|Population Services International}} (PSI), which markets and distributes life-saving materials (mostly condoms and insecticide treated bednets); Partners in Health (PIH), which creates comprehensive health programs (hospital, health center, and community health workers) in disadvantaged, generally rural, areas in the developing world; and Interplast, which devotes to correcting deformities requiring surgery (such as cleft lip and palate deformities), both through direct treatment and through support of local doctors.<ref name="Process for Identifying Top Charities"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Overview: Saving Lives (Focus on Africa)|url=https://www.givewell.org/archive/2008/saving-lives-in-africa|website=www.givewell.org|accessdate=29 November 2017}}</ref> These recommendations would be supplanted by GiveWell's 2009 end-of-year recommendations and none of these charities would return to GiveWell's top charities list after that.<ref name=year-end-2009/>
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-| 2003 || || Prelude || {{w|Holden Karnofsky}} graduates from {{w|Harvard}} with a degree in {{w|Social Studies}}. Karnofsky would spend the next several years in the {{w|hedge fund}} industry.<ref name="GiveWell, or Give 'em Hell?">{{cite web|title=GiveWell, or Give 'em Hell?|url=https://metatalk.metafilter.com/15547/GiveWell-or-Give-em-Hell|website=metatalk.metafilter.com|accessdate=21 December 2017}}</ref>
+| 2009 || January || Team || GiveWell Board of Directors' member Ari Herman joins the organization.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ari Herman |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/ari-herman-a04b011/ |website=linkedin.com |accessdate=19 February 2020}}</ref>
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-| 2004 || || Prelude || {{w|Elie Hassenfeld}} graduates from {{w|Columbia University}} with a degree in {{w|Religion}}. As well as Karnofsky, Hassenfeld would spend the next several years in the hedge fund industry.<ref name="GiveWell, or Give 'em Hell?"/>
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-| 2006 || || Prelude || {{w|Holden Karnofsky}} and Elie Hassenfeld, working at a {{w|hedge fund}} in {{w|Connecticut}}, set up an informal “charity club” with colleagues, to help them make informed decisions about their giving. Each person would pick a cause and then research the best charities working on that cause, evaluating them based on data and {{w|performance metric}}s. Hassenfeld and Karnofsky find this work so satisfying that it would ultimately lead them to create GiveWell.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Pitney|first1=Nico|title=That Time A Hedge Funder Quit His Job And Then Raised $60 Million For Charity|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/26/elie-hassenfeld-givewell_n_6927320.html|website=huffingtonpost.com|accessdate=17 December 2017}}</ref>
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-| 2006 || November 19 || Online community || <code>givewell.net</code> is registered.<ref>{{cite web |title=givewell.net |url=https://who.is/whois/givewell.net |website=who.is |accessdate=25 February 2020}}</ref>
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-| 2006 || November 25 || Content creation || Probably the earliest GiveWell {{w|wiki}} edit is made on this date. The wiki would later be shut down.<ref>{{cite web |title=Givewell wiki |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810061246/http://www.givewell.net/wiki/index.php?title=Contact_Us&action=history |website=archive.org |accessdate=24 February 2020}}</ref>
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-| 2007 || April 7 || Publication || GiveWell publishes ''The Case for the Clear Fund'', its so called original business plan, written mostly to solicit the support and feedback of its existing contacts.<ref name="Our Progress to Date"/>
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-| 2007 || Midyear || Official launch || GiveWell is founded by [[wikipedia:Holden Karnofsky|Holden Karnofsky]] and Elie Hassenfeld,<ref name="That Time A Hedge Funder Quit His Job And Then Raised $60 Million For Charity">{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/26/elie-hassenfeld-givewell_n_6927320.html|title = That Time A Hedge Funder Quit His Job And Then Raised $60 Million For Charity|last = Pitney|first = Nico|date = March 26, 2015|accessdate = 24 October 2017|publisher = ''{{w|Huffington Post}}''}}</ref><ref name="The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life">{{cite book|last1=Simler|first1=Kevin|last2=Hanson|first2=Robin|title=The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life|url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=p_lADwAAQBAJ&pg=PA207&dq=%22givewell%22+%22in+2007%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj42YXNz5HYAhWHF5AKHYiGDrAQ6AEINzAD#v=onepage&q=%22givewell%22%20%22in%202007%22&f=false|accessdate=17 December 2017}}</ref> with the purpose of evaluating, ranking, and recommending charities, focussing on evidence of effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, transparency, self-monitoring and need for funding.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Epstein|first1=Marc J.|last2=Yuthas|first2=Kristi|title=Measuring and Improving Social Impacts: A Guide for Nonprofits, Companies and Impact Investors|url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=eKk0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT93&dq=%22givewell%22+%22in+2007%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj42YXNz5HYAhWHF5AKHYiGDrAQ6AEIRDAF#v=onepage&q=%22givewell%22%20%22in%202007%22&f=false|accessdate=17 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Callahan|first1=David|title=The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age|url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=cw6wDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA122&dq=%22givewell%22+%22in+2007%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj42YXNz5HYAhWHF5AKHYiGDrAQ6AEISzAG#v=onepage&q=%22givewell%22%20%22in%202007%22&f=false|accessdate=17 December 2017}}</ref> Other co-founders include Bob Elliott.<ref name="bob elliott">{{cite web |title=Bob Elliott |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/ttoillebob/ |website=linkedin.com |accessdate=18 February 2020}}</ref>
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-| 2007 || ? || Recommendation || After conducting an open grant application process and reviewing 59 applications in global health and development, GiveWell announces the first recommendations: {{w|Population Services International}} (PSI), which markets and distributes life-saving materials (mostly condoms and insecticide treated bednets); Partners in Health (PIH), which creates comprehensive health programs (hospital, health center, and community health workers) in disadvantaged, generally rural, areas in the developing world; and  Interplast, which devotes to correcting deformities requiring surgery (such as cleft lip and palate deformities), both through direct treatment and through support of local doctors.<ref name="Process for Identifying Top Charities"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Overview: Saving Lives (Focus on Africa)|url=https://www.givewell.org/archive/2008/saving-lives-in-africa|website=www.givewell.org|accessdate=29 November 2017}}</ref>
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-| 2007 || December || Controversy || {{w|Holden Karnofsky}} is discovered posting a question about GiveWell to [[w:Online community|community]] {{w|weblog}} {{w|MetaFilter}} using another individual's name, and then posting an answer about the organization with his own name but without disclosing his affiliation with GiveWell. Negative publicity would rise, leading Karnofsky to resign from the role of executive director, though he would be later reinstated.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hacker News|url=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5048123|website=news.ycombinator.com|accessdate=8 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=GiveWell, or Give 'em Hell?|url=https://metatalk.metafilter.com/15547/GiveWell-or-Give-em-Hell|website=metatalk.metafilter.com|accessdate=8 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=STROM|first1=STEPHANIE|title=Founder of a Nonprofit Is Punished by Its Board for Engaging in an Internet Ruse|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/us/08givewell.html|website=nytimes.com|accessdate=24 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Statement from the GiveWell Board of Directors|url=https://blog.givewell.org/2008/01/06/statement-from-the-givewell-board-of-directors/|website=blog.givewell.org|accessdate=8 January 2018}}</ref>
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-| 2007 || December 20 || External citation || Stephanie Storm at {{w|The New York Times}} publishes article entitled "2 Young Hedge-Fund Veterans Stir Up the World of Philanthropy", features GiveWell and its founders.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Storm |first1=Stephanie |title=2 Young Hedge-Fund Veterans Stir Up the World of Philanthropy |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/us/20charity.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin |website=nytimes.com |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref>
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-| 2007 || December 20 || External citation || Rachel Emma Silverman and Sally Beatty at {{w|The Wall Street Journal}} publish article highlighting GiveWell among WSJ resources for donors.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Silverman |first1=Rachel Emma |last2=Beatty |first2=Sally |title=Doing Due Diligence On Your Donations |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119810791163740721 |website=wsj.com |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref>
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-| 2007 || December 20 || Interview || Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld are interviewed by {{w|CNBC}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Shaking Up Philanthropy |url=https://www.cnbc.com/video/2007/12/20/shaking-up-philanthropy.html |website=cnbc.com |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref>
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-| 2007 || December 24 || Interview || Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld are interviewed by {{w|NPR}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Young Duo to 'Clear' the Way for Charitable Giving |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17571316 |website=npr.org |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref>
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-| 2008 || January 3 || Content creation || The article {{w|GiveWell}} is created at {{w|Wikipedia}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=GiveWell: Revision history |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GiveWell&dir=prev&action=history |website=en.wikipedia.org |accessdate=15 December 2019}}</ref>
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-| 2008 || June 19 || Publication || GiveWell's first-year review is published.<ref name="Our Progress to Date"/>
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-| 2008 || August 9 || Strategy || At a board meeting, GiveWell members agree that their top priority for the coming year is money moved, with research as a secondary priority. After several months, the team would conclude that they were prioritizing their time and resources badly, and that they weren't on the best possible path to their eventual goal.<ref name="Our Progress to Date">{{cite web|title=Our Progress to Date|url=https://www.givewell.org/about/progress#Originalbusinessplanpublished472007|website=givewell.org|accessdate=29 November 2017}}</ref>
+| 2009 || March || External citation || Australian philosopher {{w|Peter Singer}} publishes ''{{w|The Life You Can Save}}''. Singer writes: {{quote|When I speak about why we ought to be doing more to help the world's poorest people — something I do often — the most frequent question I get is: how can we know that our donation will really help the poor? Until GiveWell came along, it was difficult to give a convincing answer to that question. Previous charity-rating organizations just looked at how much of a charity's income went to program expenses, rather than administration - and it doesn't take much thought to realize that that figure tells you nothing about how effective the charity's programs are. GiveWell has filled a huge gap, and at the same time has started a major trend towards greater transparency and demonstrated cost-effectiveness in the charitable world.<ref name="What Others Are Saying"/>}}A review of the book by {{w|William Easterly}} uses GiveWell's difficulties getting effectiveness information from charities to push back against Singer's claims of a clear moral obligation similar to that of saving a drowning child.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123621201818134757|title = Affluence and Ethics: Helping the poor: What can be done must be done. So what truly can be done?|last = Easterly|first = William|publisher = Wall Street Journal|date = March 5, 2009|accessdate = August 28, 2022}}</ref> In a review on the GiveWell blog, Holden Karnofsky agrees with Singer and also partly with Easterly's criticism, concluding: {{quote|It’s just that “doing more” has to mean more than “giving more.” Picking your charity – and doing your part in holding it accountable – is at least as important as giving generously. We’re trying to make this task easier for time-strapped donors: if you put credence in our analysis, it can mean simply basing your giving on our recommendations (informally, or formally via GiveWell Advance Donation).<ref name=givewell-tlycs-review>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2009/03/06/review-of-the-life-you-can-save-by-peter-singer/|title = Review of The Life You Can Save, by Peter Singer|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = March 6, 2009|accessdate = August 28, 2022}}</ref>}}
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-| 2008 || September 14 || {{w|Online community}} || GiveWell mailing list on {{w|Yahoo! Groups}} launches.<ref name="yahoo">{{cite web |title=Group Description |url=https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/givewell/conversations/topics/287?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADolV4EWQ9fkCXmFj1Hqj8aSgjS_ePOWaaZYxseJ0yhckRKcE2k-ItU1WklVttV5G-rm4L1YE5dYQaVPB8KAs8ePDmjWNXlxzfGZpIWqKvA7-u1TE2tH394DstCybO6Ha8tjtAPG_aGZKaWew-LEzS6yxiVFSMh5JOT3du6309eL |website=groups.yahoo.com |accessdate=28 January 2020}}</ref>
+| 2009 || April 3 || Top charities || GiveWell completes a preliminary report on the {{w|Stop TB Partnership}}, a charity that it is excited about.<ref name=givewell-finds-stop-tb>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2009/04/03/new-promising-charity-the-stop-tb-partnership/|title = New, promising charity: The Stop TB Partnership|date = April 3, 2009|accessdate = September 4, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref> Stop TB Partnership would become a GiveWell top charity at the end of 2009 though it would leave the top charity list after a few years.
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-| 2008 || November 17 || Strategy || GiveWell publishes its Change of Direction, based on reforms of the plan resulting from the board meeting on August 9 2008.<ref name="Our Progress to Date"/>
+| 2009 || July 1 || Recommendation || GiveWell publishes its "2008-2009 international aid recommendations"; the top recommendations are {{w|Stop TB Partnership}} and {{w|VillageReach}}, and other recommended charities include {{w|Against Malaria Foundation}}, {{w|Population Services International}}, {{w|Partners in Health}}, and {{w|The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria}}.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2009/07/01/2008-2009-international-aid-recommendations/|title = 2008-2009 international aid recommendations|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = July 1, 2009|accessdate = September 4, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref>
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-| 2008 || December 10 || Interview || {{w|Holden Karnofsky}} is interviewed by {{w|NPR}} on the importance of researching for donations.<ref name="What Others Are Saying"/>
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-| 2009 || January || Team || GiveWell Board of Directors' member Ari Herman joins the organization.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ari Herman |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/ari-herman-a04b011/ |website=linkedin.com |accessdate=19 February 2020}}</ref>
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-| 2009|| March || External citation || Australian philosopher {{w|Peter Singer}} publishes ''{{w|The Life You Can Save}}''. Singer writes: {{Quote|When I speak about why we ought to be doing more to help the world's poorest people — something I do often — the most frequent question I get is: how can we know that our donation will really help the poor? Until GiveWell came along, it was difficult to give a convincing answer to that question. Previous charity-rating organizations just looked at how much of a charity's income went to program expenses, rather than administration - and it doesn't take much thought to realize that that figure tells you nothing about how effective the charity's programs are. GiveWell has filled a huge gap, and at the same time has started a major trend towards greater transparency and demonstrated cost-effectiveness in the charitable world.<ref name="What Others Are Saying"/>}}
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 | 2009 || July || Team || Natalie Crispin joins GiveWell as a Research Analyst.<ref>{{cite web |title=Natalie Crispin |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalie-crispin-31b87717/ |website=linkedin.com |accessdate=18 February 2020}}</ref>
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-| 2009 || ? || Team || GiveWell co-founder and Board Chairman Bob Elliott departs from the organization.<ref name="bob elliott"/>
+| 2009 || ? || Team || GiveWell co-founder and Board Chairman Bob Elliott departs from the organization.<ref name="bob elliott">{{cite web |title=Bob Elliott |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/ttoillebob/ |website=linkedin.com |accessdate=18 February 2020}}</ref>
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 | 2009 || ? || Review || GiveWell conducts reviews of websites from over 300 charitable organizations, aiming to find ones that either implemented priority programs or published, on their websites, meaningful evaluations of their programs.<ref name="Process for Identifying Top Charities"/>
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 | 2009 || ? || Grantmaking || GiveWell conducts a grant application process for organizations running economic empowerment programs in the developing world.<ref name="Process for Identifying Top Charities"/> The $250,000 grant is offered to organizations providing economic empowerment programs in {{w|Sub-Saharan Africa}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=2009 Economic Empowerment Grant|url=https://www.givewell.org/international/technical/criteria/2009-economic-empowerment-grant|website=givewell.org|accessdate=29 November 2017}}</ref>
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-| 2009 || September 8 || External citation || New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof publishes ''Half the Sky'', which points to GiveWell as a donor resource.<ref name="What Others Are Saying"/>
+| 2009 || September 1 || Grantmaking || GiveWell grants $42,523.55 to VillageReach and $42,523.55 to the Stop Tuberculosis Partnership. This money comes from donors who had donated to GiveWell to grant to its recommended charities at its own discretion.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2009/09/01/givewell-grants-awarded/|title = GiveWell grants awarded|date = September 1, 2009|accessdate = September 4, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref> This would be the first officially announced "discretionary regranting" by GiveWell; discretionary regranting would later morph into the GiveWell Maximum Impact Fund.<ref name=maximum-impact-fund>{{cite web|url = https://www.givewell.org/maximum-impact-fund|title = Maximum Impact Fund|accessdate = September 4, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref>
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+| 2009 || September 8 || External citation || New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof co-authors ''{{w|Half the Sky}}'' with his wife {{w|Sheryl WuDunn}}. The book points to GiveWell and Charity Navigator as donor resources.<ref name="What Others Are Saying"/><ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm/book_number/2345/half-the-sky|title = Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide|last = Kristof|first = Nicholas|last2 = WuDunn|first2 = Sheryl|publisher = BookBrowse}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://vialogue.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/half-the-sky-review-notes/|title = Half The Sky: Review & Notes|date = April 12, 2012|accessdate = August 28, 2022}}</ref>
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+| 2009 || October 3 || Concept development (cash as benchmark) || A blog post on the GiveWell blog discusses the idea of cash transfers as a benchmark, i.e., the idea that donations should pass the test of being more cost-effective than donating cash to beneficiaries. The post says: "In concept, we think it’s a great idea (and we proposed something similar for evaluations of U.S. charities). However, one major issue for individual donors is simply that we know of no charity that focuses on delivering cash directly to low-income people."<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2009/10/03/cash-as-a-benchmark/|title = Cash as a benchmark?|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|date = October 3, 2009|accessdate = August 28, 2022|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref> This is a few years before the launch of future GiveWell top charity {{w|GiveDirectly}} that would be focused precisely on delivering cash directly to low-income people. The concept of cash as a benchmark would inform the thinking of GiveWell and its spinoff Open Philanthropy over the coming years, with the effectiveness of marginal donations to GiveWell top charities being reported in terms of their multiplier over cash.<ref name=givewells-top-charities-hard-to-beat>{{cite web|url = https://www.openphilanthropy.org/research/givewells-top-charities-are-increasingly-hard-to-beat/|title = GiveWell’s Top Charities Are (Increasingly) Hard to Beat|last = Berger|first = Alexander|date = July 9, 2019|accessdate = August 28, 2022|publisher = Open Philanthropy}}</ref><ref name=givewell-2020-open-phil-recommendation>{{cite web|url = https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities/2020/open-philanthropy-recommendation|title = Recommendation to Open Philanthropy for Grants in November 2020|publisher = GiveWell|accessdate = August 28, 2022}}</ref>
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-| 2009 || November 8 || External citation || GiveWell is recommended by a {{w|Wall Street Journal}} article on resources for evaluating charities.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Banjo |first1=Shelly |title=Check Out Charities |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB125762887234736193 |website=wsj.com |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref>
+| 2009 || November 8 || External citation || GiveWell is recommended by a {{w|Wall Street Journal}} article on resources for evaluating charities, along with Charity Navigator and GuideStar. Whereas Charity Navigator is described as covering 5,400 nonprofits and including "executive compensation, efficiency, organizational capacity, donor privacy policies, and administrative, fund-raising and program expenses", and GuideStar is described as having "nonprofit reports and tax forms for almost two million charities", GiveWell is described as having "in-depth information on individual charities and causes" and focusing on "how well programs work and their impact on the people they serve."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Banjo |first1=Shelly |title=Check Out Charities |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB125762887234736193 |website=wsj.com |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref>
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 | 2009 || Late months || Strategy || GiveWell begins to use "scenario analysis" asking how a charity's activities would change at different levels of total unrestricted funding. This approach is expected to allow GiveWell to check back later and see the extent to which actual activities were in line with actual funding.<ref>{{cite web|title=Room for More Funding|url=https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/criteria/room-for-more-funding|website=givewell.org|accessdate=18 December 2017}}</ref>
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+| 2009 || December 29, 30, 31 || Recommendation || GiveWell recommends {{w|VillageReach}} (immunizations)<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2009/12/30/villagereach/|title = VillageReach|date = December 30, 2009|accessdate = August 28, 2022|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref> and {{w|Stop TB Partnership}}} (tuberculosis)<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2009/12/29/stop-tuberculosis-partnership/|title = Stop Tuberculosis Partnership|date = December 29, 2009|accessdate = August 28, 2022|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref> as its top charities for 2009. The post announcing the recommendations says:<ref name=year-end-2009>{{cite web|url = https://blog.givewell.org/2009/12/31/you-can-save-a-life/|title = You can save a life|date = December 31, 2009|accessdate = August 28, 2022|last = Karnofsky|first = Holden|publisher = GiveWell}}</ref>{{quote|We ask you, as a donor, to turn down some great pitches – “Your interest-free loan will help this person escape poverty forever,” “You can give a cow to a poor family for Christmas,” etc. – and give instead to charities that aren’t terribly good at storytelling. [...] But if you give to one of our top charities, you really can save (or dramatically change) a human life.}}
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 | 2010 || January 20 || Interview || Elie Hassenfeld is interviewed by {{w|CNN}} about using overhead to evaluate charities.<ref>{{cite web |title=Interview |url=https://files.givewell.org/files/press/Elie%20Hassenfeld%20-%20CNN%20Radio%20-%202010%2001%2020.mp3 |website=givewell.org |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref><ref name="What Others Are Saying"/>
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+| 2010 || May and June || Online community || Over this period, GiveWell acquires the givewell.org domain and migrates its website from <code>www.givewell.net</code> to <code>www.givewell.org</code>, with the former redirecting to the latter. The Wayback Machine snapshots show the following: April 23 shows www.givewell.org under control of its prior owner,<ref>{{cite web|url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100423164224/http://www.givewell.org/|title = Wayback Machine snapshot of www.givewell.org|date = April 23, 2010|accessdate = August 28, 2022}}</ref> May 25 shows www.givewell.org under GiveWell's control but with no content on the home page,<ref>{{cite web|url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100525182513/http://www.givewell.org/|title = Wayback Machine snapshot of www.givewell.org|date = May 25, 2010|accessdate = August 28, 2022}</ref> and June 14 shows the full home page at www.givewell.org.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100614040626/http://www.givewell.org/|title = Wayback Machine snapshot of www.givewell.org|date = June 14, 2010|accessdate = August 28, 2022}}</ref>
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 | 2010 || June 3 || Guest post || The first guest post on GiveWell by a donor is published.<ref>{{cite web|title=My donation for 2009 (guest post from Dario Amodei)|url=https://blog.givewell.org/2010/06/03/my-donation-for-2009-guest-post-from-dario-amodei/|website=blog.givewell.org|accessdate=8 January 2018}}</ref>
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 | 2010 || August–November || Site visit || GiveWell's staff visits Mumbai, India from mid-August to the end of November, and visits a number of organizations in Mumbai and other cities in the country.<ref>{{cite web|title=India Site Visits: August-November 2010|url=https://www.givewell.org/research/site-visits/india-fall-2010|website=www.givewell.org|accessdate=29 November 2017}}</ref>
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-| 2010 || November 20 || External citation || Nicholas Kristof at {{w|The New York Times}} writes: {{Quote|Philanthropy has made huge strides in the last couple of decades, with far more emphasis on cost-effective interventions that are scalable to bring about change. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has helped lead the way, and Web sites like Givewell.org guide small-time donors.<ref name="What Others Are Saying"/>}}
+| 2010 || November 20 || External citation || Nicholas Kristof at {{w|The New York Times}} writes: {{Quote|Philanthropy has made huge strides in the last couple of decades, with far more emphasis on cost-effective interventions that are scalable to bring about change. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has helped lead the way, and Web sites like Givewell.org guide small-time donors. CharityNavigator.org ranks organizations partly by administrative expenses, which are less important than a charity’s impact on the needy, but it is trying to develop more useful information about impact.<ref name="What Others Are Saying"/><ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/opinion/21kristof.html|title = When Donations Go Astray|last = Kristof|first = Nicholas|date = November 20, 2010|accessdate = August 28, 2022|publisher = New York Times}}</ref>}}
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 | 2010 || November 30 || External citation || {{w|GiveWell}} is featured by {{w|USA Today}} as a donor resource.<ref>{{cite web |title=How to research a charity before donating your money |url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/perfi/columnist/block/2010-11-30-yourmoney30_ST_N.htm |website=usatoday.com |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref><ref name="What Others Are Saying"/>
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 | 2011 || March 16 || External citation || GiveWell is cited by {{w|The New York Times}} in an article about donating in the aftermath of the {{w|2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami}} in {{w|Japan}}.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Strom |first1=Stephanie |title=A Charitable Rush, With Little Direction |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/world/asia/16charity.html?_r=1 |website=nytimes.com |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref><ref name="What Others Are Saying"/>
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+| 2011 || April || Team || {{w|Good Ventures}} co–founder Cari Tuna (who is in a relationship with, and would later marry, {{w|Facebook}} co–founder {{w|Dustin Moskovitz}}) joins the board of GiveWell. Tuna is president of Good Ventures, a foundation started by her and Moskovitz to give away Moskovitz's acquired wealth through Facebook, and GiveWell recommendations are being used to inform some of the donation decisions.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Preston|first1=Caroline|title=Another Facebook Co-Founder Gets Philanthropic|url=https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Another-Facebook-Co-Founder/227601|accessdate=17 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Guest post from Cari Tuna|url=https://blog.givewell.org/2011/12/23/guest-post-from-cari-tuna/|website=givewell.org|accessdate=17 December 2017}}</ref> This relationship would lead to GiveWell Labs that would morph into the Open Philanthropy Project, later shortened to Open Philanthropy, an independent entity directing the bulk of Good Ventures' money, and a major funder of both GiveWell top charities and several other cause areas.
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-| 2011 || September 8 || Partnership || GiveWell Labs is announced as a new initiative within GiveWell. A collaboration between private foundation {{w|Good Ventures}} and GiveWell, the purpose of it is to “systematically examine a wide variety of causes and opportunities with the intention of identifying the ones which could use additional money ... to produce the best long-run outcomes.”<ref>{{cite web|last1=Tuna|first1=Cari|title=Update on Open Philanthropy Project|url=https://disqus.com/by/Cari_Tuna/|website=disqus.com|accessdate=28 November 2017}}</ref>
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-| 2012 || September 28 || External citation || Paul Sullivan at {{w|The New York Times}} publishes an article on measuring the impact of giving, featuring GiveWell.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sullivan |first1=Paul |title=Philanthropists Weigh the Returns of Doing Good |website=nytimes.com |accessdate=30 March 2020|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/29/your-money/measuring-the-impact-of-impact-investing-wealth-matters.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0}}</ref>
+| 2011 || September 8 || Partnership || GiveWell Labs is announced as a new initiative within GiveWell. A collaboration between private foundation {{w|Good Ventures}} and GiveWell, the purpose of it is to “systematically examine a wide variety of causes and opportunities with the intention of identifying the ones which could use additional money ... to produce the best long-run outcomes.”<ref>{{cite web|last1=Tuna|first1=Cari|title=Update on Open Philanthropy Project|url=https://disqus.com/by/Cari_Tuna/|website=disqus.com|accessdate=28 November 2017}}</ref> GiveWell Labs woud morph into the Open Philanthropy Project, later shortened to Open Philanthropy, an independent entity directing the bulk of Good Ventures' money, and a major funder of both GiveWell top charities and several other cause areas.
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 | 2011 || October || Site visit || GiveWell staff visits five organizations in {{w|Malawi}} and four in {{w|India}} as part of its research process to identify top-rated charities.<ref>{{cite web|title=Site Visits: October 2011|url=https://www.givewell.org/research/site-visits/october-2011|website=givewell.org|accessdate=10 December 2017}}</ref><ref name="Charity Site Visits">{{cite web|title=Charity Site Visits|url=https://www.givewell.org/research/site-visits|website=givewell.org|accessdate=21 December 2017}}</ref>
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 | 2012 || June || Partnership || Private foundation {{w|Good Ventures}} (founded by Cari Tuna and her husband, {{w|Facebook}} co-founder {{w|Dustin Moskovitz}}) announces a close partnership with GiveWell.<ref>{{cite web|title=GiveWell and Good Ventures|url=https://blog.givewell.org/2012/06/28/givewell-and-good-ventures/|website=blog.givewell.org|accessdate=18 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz: Young Silicon Valley billionaires pioneer new approach to philanthropy|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/billionaire-couple-give-plenty-to-charity-but-they-do-quite-a-bit-of-homework/2014/12/26/19fae34c-86d6-11e4-b9b7-b8632ae73d25_story.html?utm_term=.06ac6743051b|website=washingtonpost.com|accessdate=18 December 2017}}</ref> The joint collaboration would later lead to the formation of the Open Philanthropy Project, whose mission is to figure out how, exactly to figure out the best possible way to use large sums of money to do as much good as possible.<ref>{{cite web|title=You have $8 billion. You want to do as much good as possible. What do you do?|url=https://www.vox.com/2015/4/24/8457895/givewell-open-philanthropy-charity|website=vox.com|accessdate=18 December 2017}}</ref>
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+| 2012 || September 28 || External citation || Paul Sullivan at {{w|The New York Times}} publishes an article on measuring the impact of giving, featuring GiveWell. The article talks about GiveWell's disillusionment with finding cost-effective charities for US equality of opportunity, and their success at finding cost-effective opportunities in global health, specifically the {{w|Against Malaria Foundation}} (AMF). Karnofsky, who is interviewed for the article, notes how the GiveWell review process may have influenced AMF to do post-distribution monitoring to make sure that the bed nets they distributed were being used.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sullivan |first1=Paul |title=Philanthropists Weigh the Returns of Doing Good |website=nytimes.com |accessdate=30 March 2020|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/29/your-money/measuring-the-impact-of-impact-investing-wealth-matters.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0}}</ref>
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 | 2012 || November 13 || External citation || William MacAskill from {{w|Giving What We Can}} publishes post enitled "Researching What We Should", which highlights GiveWell as top evaluator in some areas of research.<ref>{{cite web |last1=MacAskill |first1=William |title=RESEARCHING WHAT WE SHOULD |url=https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/post/2012/11/researching-what-we-should/ |website=givingwhatwecan.org |accessdate=27 March 2020}}</ref>
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+| 2014 || April 12 || External citation || In a post on LessWrong, Vipul Naik evaluates GiveWell as a startup idea based on criteria provided by [[w:Paul Graham (programmer)|Paul Graham]], co-founder of {{w|Y Combinator}}, one of the most successful startup accelerators. Naik's post discusses GiveWell's prescience relative to its time, its fit to a niche market, and other precursors to GiveWell.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KngH3kABkhZet8qML/evaluating-givewell-as-a-startup-idea-based-on-paul-graham-s|title = Evaluating GiveWell as a startup idea based on Paul Graham's philosophy|date = April 12, 2014|accessdate = September 4, 2022|last = Naik|first = Vipul|publisher = LessWrong}}</ref> It also cites a Facebook post by Naik asking for information about precursors to GiveWell; commenters on the post include several people who had been affiliated with Giving What We Can since its founding, including {{w|William MacAskill}} and Bernadette Young, who both say that Giving What We Can was thinking about charity cost-effectiveness and part of the reason they chose to focus on encouraging giving (rather than investigating charity cost-effectiveness) was the entry of GiveWell.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.facebook.com/groups/effective.altruists/permalink/663015723754788/|title = What are some precedents to GiveWell?|last = Naik|first = Vipul|date = April 10, 2014|accessdate = September 4, 2022|publisher = Facebook}}</ref>
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 | 2014 || April 25 || External citation || Ron Lieber at The New York Times features GiveWell in an article on the challenges of giving effectively.<ref name="What Others Are Saying"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Lieber |first1=Ron |title=Donating, and Making Sure the Money Is Put to Work |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/your-money/giving-away-money-and-making-sure-its-put-to-work.html?_r=0 |website=nytimes.com |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref>
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+| 2019 || February 26 || ||  An article discusses GiveWell's shift towards policy-oriented philanthropy alongside its traditional focus on cost-effective charity interventions. GiveWell, known for evaluating charities based on rigorous evidence, is expanding its research team to explore advocacy for public health regulations, government program improvements, and economic policies. This move aims to identify high-impact strategies beyond direct aid distribution in low- and middle-income countries. The shift acknowledges the potential for policy changes to achieve broader and more sustainable impacts, albeit with greater complexity and subjectivity in assessing effectiveness compared to direct interventions.   <ref>{{cite web | title = GiveWell, the charity evaluator, is entering the world of policy advocacy | url = https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/2/26/18241045/givewell-cost-effective-charity-policy-advocacy-giving | website = Vox | date = 2019-02-26 | access-date = 2024-06-26}}</ref>
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 * searching for new, cost-effective funding opportunities in GiveWell's traditional research areas; and
 * building a donor community.<ref>{{cite web |title=GiveWell’s plans for 2020 |url=https://blog.givewell.org/ |website=blog.givewell.org |accessdate=30 May 2020}}</ref>
+|-
+| 2021 || December 2 || || GiveWell faces backlash after deciding to withhold $110 million of its 2021 funds to use in 2022, aiming to find more cost-effective uses than direct cash transfers. This decision sparks criticism from organizations like GiveDirectly, which argues that the funds could address immediate needs and help alleviate poverty. GiveWell maintains that their approach ensures the greatest impact per dollar, adhering to their principle of cost-effectiveness. The debate highlights broader issues of transparency and the balance between immediate action and strategic future investments in philanthropy.<ref>{{cite web | title = GiveWell's move to delay $110M reopens debate on giving now vs. later | url = https://www.devex.com/news/givewell-s-move-to-delay-110m-reopens-debate-on-giving-now-vs-later-102182 | website = Devex | date = 2024-06-22 | access-date = 2024-06-26}}</ref>
+|-
+| 2023 || October 2 || || Elie Hassenfeld discusses the organization's approach to identifying high-impact charities on EconTalk with Russ Roberts. Hassenfeld explains that GiveWell, inspired by effective altruism, focuses on finding charities that maximize the impact per dollar donated. He acknowledges the challenges of relying heavily on data and suggests that while GiveWell's method emphasizes cost-effectiveness, there's also value in diversifying philanthropy to include local or personal causes. This balanced approach aims to ensure both optimal impact and personal fulfillment in charitable giving.<ref>{{cite web | title = Elie Hassenfeld on GiveWell | url = https://www.econtalk.org/elie-hassenfeld-on-givewell/ | website = EconTalk | access-date = 2024-06-26}}</ref>
 |-
 |}
+== Numerical and visual data  ==
+=== Google Scholar ===
+The following table summarizes per-year mentions on Google Scholar as of December 18, 2021.
+{| class="sortable wikitable"
+! Year
+! "GiveWell"
+|-
+| 2007 || 2
+|-
+| 2008 || 14
+|-
+| 2009 || 18
+|-
+| 2010 || 37
+|-
+| 2011 || 38
+|-
+| 2012 || 60
+|-
+| 2013 || 83
+|-
+| 2014 || 109
+|-
+| 2015 || 121
+|-
+| 2016 || 144
+|-
+| 2017 || 138
+|-
+| 2018 || 112
+|-
+| 2019 || 146
+|-
+| 2020 || 162
+|-
+|}
+[[File:Givewell gscho.png|thumb|center|700px]]
+[[File:Growth of GiveWell full-time staff.jpg|thumb|center|600px|Growth of GiveWell full-time staff, June 2010 – August 2016.]]
+=== Wikipedia views ===
+The image below shows Wikipedia views from December 2007 for desktop, and from July 2015 (see red vertical line) for mobile web, mobile app, desktop spider, and mobile web spider; to March 2020.<ref>{{cite web |title=GiveWell Wikipedia views |url=https://wikipediaviews.org/displayviewsformultiplemonths.php?page=GiveWell&allmonths=allmonths&language=en&drilldown=all |website=wikipediaviews.org |accessdate=24 April 2020}}</ref>
+[[File:GiveWell Wikipedia Views from December 2007.png|500px|thumb|center]]
+=== Google Trends ===
+The comparative chart below shows {{w|Google Trends}} data for GiveWell (Non-profit) and GiveWell (Search term) from January 2007 to February 2021, when the screenshot was taken. Interest is also ranked by country and displayed on world map.<ref>{{cite web |title=GiveWell |url=https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2007-01-01%202021-02-23&q=%2Fm%2F03h570b,GiveWell |website=Google Trends |access-date=23 February 2021}}</ref>
+[[File:GiveWell gt.jpg|thumb|center|800px]]
+=== Google Ngram Viewer ===
+The chart below shows {{w|Google Ngram Viewer}} data for GiveWell from 2007 to 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=GiveWell |url=https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=GiveWell&year_start=2007&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=true |website=books.google.com |access-date=23 February 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
+[[File:GiveWell ngram.jpg|thumb|center|800px]]
+== Tables ==
+The table below shows money moved by category, in US$ millions.<ref name="GiveWell Metrics Report – 2018 Annual Review"/>
+{| class="sortable wikitable"
+! Year !! Incubation grants !! Good ventures to recommended charities !! All other money moved !! Total
+|-
+| 2011 || 3 || 1.1 || 0 || 4.1
+|-
+| 2012 || 6.4 || 3 || 0 || 9.4
+|-
+| 2013 || 8.7 || 9.3 || 0.1 || 18.1
+|-
+| 2014 || 16.7 || 15.1 || 0.3 || 32.1
+|-
+| 2015 || 43.4 || 70.4 || 0.5 || 114.3
+|-
+| 2016 || 41.5 || 50.4 || 13.3 || 105.2
+|-
+| 2017 || 45.7 || 75.1 || 15.8 || 136.6
+|-
+| 2018 || 61 || 64 || 15.9 || 140.9
+|-
+|}
+The table below shows growth of GiveWell staff, June 2010 – August 2016. ‘Num’ is the number of full-time staff, ‘Diff’ is the difference in ‘Num’ relative to the previous month and is given in the form
+(''−x,y''), where ''x'' is the number full-time staff that left and ''y'' is the number of full-time staff that joined.<ref name="=GIVEWELL STAFF GROWTH">{{cite web|title=GIVEWELL STAFF GROWTH|url=https://issarice.com/givewell-staff-growth|website=issarice.com|accessdate=29 December 2017}}</ref>
+{| class="sortable wikitable"
+! Date !! Num !! Diff
+|-
+| 2010-06-09 || 4 ||
+|-
+| 2011-06-04 || 4 || (−1,+1)
+|-
+| 2011-09-25 ||	5 || (−0,+1)
+|-
+| 2012-01-02 ||	4 || (−1,+0)
+|-
+| 2012-02-08 ||	5 || (−0,+1)
+|-
+| 2012-07-19 ||	8 || (−0,+3)
+|-
+| 2013-01-13 ||	6 || (−2,+0)
+|-
+| 2013-04-30 ||	7 || (−0,+1)
+|-
+| 2013-08-15 ||	8 || (−1,+2)
+|-
+| 2013-09-28 ||	10 || (−0,+2)
+|-
+| 2013-12-14 ||	11 || (−0,+1)
+|-
+| 2014-07-13 ||	12 || (−0,+1)
+|-
+| 2014-11-03 ||	18 || (−0,+6)
+|-
+| 2015-02-01 ||	18 || (−1,+1)
+|-
+| 2015-05-01 ||	18 || (−1,+1)
+|-
+| 2015-06-16 ||	23 || (−0,+5)
+|-
+| 2015-08-16 ||	24 || (−0,+1)
+|-
+| 2015-10-01 ||	30 || (−0,+6)
+|-
+| 2015-10-31 ||	32 || (−0,+2)
+|-
+| 2015-11-22 ||	31 || (−1,+0)
+|-
+| 2015-12-15 ||	32 || (−1,+2)
+|-
+| 2016-03-10 ||	31 || (−2,+1)
+|-
+| 2016-06-25 ||	35 || (−2,+6)
+|-
+| 2016-07-23 ||	37 || (−1,+3)
+|-
+| 2016-08-13 ||	36 || (−2,+1)
+|-
+|}
+Growth of GiveWell and Open Phil since September 2016
+{| class="sortable wikitable"
+! Date !! GW ∩ OP !! GW ∖ OP !! OP ∖ GW
+|-
+| 2016-09-10 ||	2 || 18 || 20
+|-
+| 2016-10-01 ||	2(−0,+0) || 19(−0,+1) || 20(−0,+0)
+|-
+| 2016-11-04 ||	2(-0,+0) || 18(−1,+0) || 20(−0,+0)
+|-
+| 2016-12-05 ||	2(−0,+0) || 18(−0,+0) || 20(−0,+0)
+|-
+| 2017-01-05 ||	2(−0,+0) || 17(−1,+0) || 20(−0,+0)
+|-
+| 2017-02-05 ||	2(−0,+0) || 15(−2,+0) || 21(−0,+1)
+|-
+| 2017-03-08 ||	2(−0,+0) || 14(−1,+0) || 21(−1,+1)
+|-
+| 2017-04-20 ||	2(−0,+0) || 16(−0,+2) || 21(−0,+0)
+|-
+| 2017-05-05 ||	2(−0,+0) || 16(−0,+0) || 21(−0,+0)
+|-
+| 2017-06-05 ||	2(−0,+0) || 16(−0,+0) || 20(−1,+0)
+|-
+| 2017-07-05 ||	1(−1,+0) || 16(−0,+0) || 23(−0,+3)
+|-
+| 2017-08-05 ||	1(−0,+0) || 16(−0,+0) || 24(−0,+1)
+|-
+| 2017-09-06 ||	1(−0,+0) || 16(−0,+0) || 22(−2,+0)
+|-
+| 2017-10-07 ||	1(−0,+0) || 16(−0,+0) || 22(−0,+0)
+|-
+| 2017-11-06 ||	1(−0,+0) || 18(−0,+2) || 22(−0,+0)
+|-
+| 2017-12-05 ||	1(−0,+0) || 19(−0,+1) || 22(−0,+0)
+|-
+| 2018-01-05 || 1(−0,+0) || 19(−0,+0) || 22(−0,+0)
+|-
+| 2018-02-06 || 1(−0,+0) || 18(−1,+0) || 21(−1,+0)
+|-
+| 2018-03-06 || 0(−1,+0) || 19(−0,+1) || 21(−0,+0)
+|-
+|}
+The table below shows the number of versions per year of GiveWell's Cost-Effectiveness Analyses.
+{| class="sortable wikitable"
+! Year !! Num
+|-
+| 2012 || 1<ref name="givewell.orgen"/>
+|-
+| 2013 || 1<ref name="givewell.orgen"/>
+|-
+| 2014 || 1<ref name="givewell.orgen"/>
+|-
+| 2015 || 1<ref name="givewell.orgen"/>
+|-
+| 2016 || 2<ref name="givewell.orgen"/>
+|-
+| 2017 || 5<ref name="givewell.orgen"/>
+|-
+| 2018 || 16<ref name="2018 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Changelog"/>
+|-
+| 2019 || 6<ref name="sdsf">{{cite web |title=2019 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Changelog |url=https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/our-criteria/cost-effectiveness/cost-effectiveness-models/changelog-2019 |website=givewell.org |accessdate=28 March 2020}}</ref>
+|-
+|}
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